Boys Will Be Boys

## Stats

**Boys Will Be Boys** is the 39th episode of the series *Babar* that aired on June 24, 1990.

## Summary

Babar, Zephir, and Arthur go hiking in the forest while Flora, Pom, Alexander, and Victor drink milkshakes at Zephir's malt shop. They tell Victor what the three boys are doing - finding buried treasure that they haven't looked for ever since they were the children's age. This interests Victor in telling his dad Rataxes about it, and of course, Rataxes is interested in finding it.

While hiking, Zephir, Arthur, and Babar recall when they were boys back when they first looked for the treasure. Zephir says what he misses about being a kid is all the practical jokes he used to play on everyone, but Arthur begs to differ, and they recall the pranks that he used to pull, especially when he was supposed to guard the peanut patch but made a false alarm. Zephir says that he thought it was funny and the only thing funnier is the fact that they walked into Mucky swamp. He laughs so hard he falls off Babar's bag and into the Swamp, which Arthur and Babar laugh at. Zephir then points out that he wasn't the only one who pulled pranks, Babar pranked Zephir with a rhino costume, and while the plan did work, it backfired after the real rhinos showed up and destroyed the whole patch. Arthur says that he thought Pompadour was going to flip his wig. Soon enough, they reach Rocky Ridge, Rataxes and Basil are not far behind and recall when they were getting the Weeping Wonderbird Feather. Suddenly Babar remembers that the path is blocked off, which is why Zephir never leads them in the first place. Arthur and Zephir remind Babar he was the one who got them out of these situations, so they jumped to a tree, but due to the extra weight, Babar loses his backpack, which sends them flying.

It reminds Zephir when he and Babar were getting the Wonderbird feather and got stuck in quicksand, resulting in Rataxes using a tree to hang on and save the two after sinking. Basil, holding the tree, lets go and they all go flying. An embarrassed and upside-down Rataxes gives Babar the feather, telling him to not tell anyone about rescuing a foe. Arthur finds one of his traps that he put just in case anyone tried looking for the treasure. Zephir claims it doesn't work, but one step he takes causes them both to be trapped in a tree. He tells Arthur to stop being a scaredy-cat, but Arthur claims he's been through worse himself, although Zephir brings up the time when at sea with Babar and co., a tidal wave wrecked their ship and they were stuck on an island with Conga the Terrible, who turned out not to be scary at all. Soon, Rataxes and Basil use the same tree-slinging method that the three boys used, and they meet again.

The rhinos lie that they are just taking a walk, but Zephir doesn't buy it. Rataxes asks if he would like a trip to the moon, which brings up another flashback when Zephir was about to be launched in Rataxes' rocket, but Babar and Arthur save him when they are disguised as aliens from the moon. Rataxes steals the map from Zephir's hands and they run off. They get to an intersection, and Rataxes run straight while Basil goes right, and Babar, Zephir, and Arthur split and go different ways. Soon Babar catches up with Rataxes, but another trap catches them both. Rataxes moves and it leads to them both dangling above a hole. Rataxes never knew that it would end like this, but Babar brings up that if it weren't for Rataxes, they would've been done for a long time ago thanks to him and his troops, they all worked together with the other jungle animals to stop the hunter's crazy wildfire and the hunter as a whole. The rope breaks and the two fall down the hole, but go down a slide that takes them to the treasure chest. The treasure turns out to be a bunch of old toys that Babar's kids love. Cornelius had dug them when Babar and his boys outgrown them. However, Babar says they aren't just toys, but memories that are treasured. While defeated at first, Rataxes can't help but laugh at the memory of Babar and Arthur's alien disguise.

## Trivia

* This episode uses footage from *Monkey Business*, *The Gift*, *Conga the Terrible*, *Race to the Moon*, and *Babar's Triumph*.