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The Green Pepper

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Grandma trusts Phoebe and Jay to look after the community garden's first bell pepper until it ripens from green to orange. Using a moisture meter, a watering can and plenty of patience, the children keep the soil just right through sun and rain while shooing a hungry squirrel named Harold. When they realize Harold only wants the pepper because his own food got soaked, they build him a dry home for his acorns. The pepper ripens, they pick it, and share a salad with a neighbor.

Birthday Dance Surprise

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Phoebe, a young girl living at the Topsy Towers apartment community, hears Grandma Annie's favourite song and decides to make up a surprise dance for her grandmother's birthday. She teaches the three-part dance to her brother Jay, her friend Lupe, neighbour Mr. Gurley and her dad, finding a different way to help each one learn, from turning the steps into a song to recording a video they can slow down and drawing pictures of each move. The family keeps the dance a secret while they practise. At the party, everyone performs it together and Grandma Annie calls it the best birthday surprise ever.

Raspberry Cupcakes

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Ray welcomes a group of young chicks to her cooking class in Bebopsburg to make raspberry cupcakes, with Do and Mi helping out. The chicks would rather play than mix, so Ray decides to sing her instructions, but her first version is far too loud and sends them into hiding, the next is too soft to hear, then one is too quick to follow and another so slow that several chicks doze off. Maestro Moon explains what dynamics and tempo mean, and Ray keeps adjusting until she finds a version the chicks can actually follow. The class finishes their cupcakes and the episode ends with a taste test.

Rosie's Rescue

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Izzy lives on Magnetic Island in Australia with her family, who rescue and care for koalas. When a neighbour brings in a lost, dehydrated koala, Izzy and her wildlife doctor mum check her over, name her Rosie, and let her share resident koala Leia's enclosure for the night. Izzy then scouts three places on the island and tests leaf samples to find where Rosie will thrive. Rosie picks the leaf from near Izzy's school, so the family releases her there, and the episode closes with a goodbye and a safety message about hurt animals.

Muffin Moves In

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A little koala injured by green ants arrives at the island koala hospital run by Izzy and her family. They name her Muffin, treat her sore eyes, and set out to find her a compatible roommate among the resident koalas. After ruling out several, they choose Cinderella, who recovered from the same kind of injury, and a mainland x-ray confirms Muffin has no broken bones. The episode ends with Muffin and Cinderella meeting in a freshly decorated enclosure and a reminder to tell an adult if you find a hurt animal.

Buzzbee the Magician

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Buzzbee the bee finds his Papa's magic hat and, after failing to make real magic happen, learns it works through a hidden secret door. He proudly puts on a show for his friends, but his big sister Ruby gives away the secret and he shouts at her before she leaves. Buzzbee fears his wish made her disappear, then Ruby returns with a gift and an apology. The siblings make up and perform a new trick together with their baby sister and some honey cake.

Just Won't Quit

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Do the owl decides that today is the day he will finally fly, and his friends Re and Mi set aside their own plans to help. Together they try jumping from a branch, a rope tow between the treetops and a homemade catapult, and each attempt ends with Do coming back down, once into a tree and once onto a washing line. Along the way Do writes and sings a song about not quitting, and his friends add one instruction at a time: spread your wings, point your tail feathers, keep your beak straight, and flap. Do never gets airborne on his own, but he discovers he is an excellent lander and builds a target to prove it.

The Newcomer

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Stan and Olivia want everyone to play with their giant beach ball, but Bigfoot cannot join because a seagull is sitting on his head and refuses to play. The two friends try one idea after another to befriend the bird, talking to her, sharing a snack, and even wearing seagulls on their own heads. In the end the birds squabble and the newcomer flies off, and Bigfoot reveals she was never his friend, just a bird that had landed on him three days earlier. He thanks the friends and finally takes his turn with the beach ball.

The Magnetic Crane

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A load of metal beams spills across the highway in Car City and traffic comes to a complete standstill. Ethan and the other trucks call in Carl the Super Truck, who returns to his base and is fitted with a magnetic crane arm. Back at the highway he sweeps the magnet over the road, accidentally lifting Deen along with the metal before switching it off and trying again more carefully. The collected metal goes into Ethan's dump bed and the cars start moving again.

Leia Has a Cold

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A young girl named Izzy lives with her family on an Australian island, where her mum works as a koala-rescuing vet. When Izzy's koala Leia starts sneezing and sniffling, they take a boat to the clinic for a check-up and a blood test. The results show only allergies, and Leia returns home to rest and eat fresh eucalyptus leaves. The episode closes with Izzy reminding children not to approach sick animals but to tell an adult.

Stuck in the Rain

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Michael is disappointed when rain cancels his baseball game, so his neighbour Stillwater, a wise panda, shows him another way to see the day. Stillwater explains that he treats the rain as a raincoat and tells the story of Odette, a gardener who removes the bees from her garden and then loses all her fruit. Michael takes the lesson to heart, realises rain helps things grow, and starts having fun racing leaf boats and jumping in puddles. The episode closes with the children playing happily in the rain.

Big Dreams And Blue Skies

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Molly, an Alaska Native girl, hears how a pilot named Ellen Peniak inspired her mother to fly. When the library's books leave women pilots out, Molly digs deeper online and through Auntie Midge's stories, then flies along on a mail run where her mom lands safely by reading the wind off a lake. Together they write a booklet about Ellen and two other women pilots and leave it at the library so others can learn about them.

Tusk, Tusk, and More Tusk

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Molly and her friends Tooey and Trini discover a large tusk buried in the mud near the river in their Alaska village. Grandpa Nat and an archaeologist named Olin Benedict identify it as a woolly mammoth tusk and explain the Ice Age, permafrost, and how the warming climate erodes the riverbank. The children help free the tusk through trial and error, measure it, photograph it, and give it the Gwich'in name 'Trilzok', meaning gentle. The episode ends with a separate live-action segment where children visit a museum to learn whether dinosaurs once lived in Alaska.

Amazing Cave Animals

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Host Jessi, a male co-host and Squeaks the robot rat get ready to visit their friend Sam the bat in his cave. Along the way they explain that a cave is a habitat, show real footage of an olm, a Mexican tetra and a cave spider, and point out that these animals have no eyes. They walk the viewer through why deep cave animals rely on smell and touch instead of sight, and invite the child to close their eyes and notice their own senses. The episode ends back in the studio as the hosts finish packing for the trip.

The Sleeping Moon

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Three siblings and their panda neighbor Stillwater set up a backyard party to watch a lunar eclipse. Just as the moon starts to darken, clouds roll in and hide the best part, leaving the children disappointed. Stillwater helps them talk about how the letdown feels and tells a story about a woman named Antonia and a songbird that visits her garden and then flies away for good. The children realize the evening was still worth it, hand out the moon pops, and close the night with shadow puppets and a song.

Happy Birthday, Qyah!

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Molly and her best friend Tui set out to answer one question: how old is their Alaska Native village of Qyah, really? After Molly's dad finds a cave revealed by an earthquake, the two join archaeologists Nina and Olin to investigate signs that ancestors once sheltered there. They uncover a painted pictograph that matches an oral origin story, get briefly trapped by an aftershock before climbing out, and help carbon-date the find. The episode ends with a new museum exhibit, a corrected town website, and the news that people have lived in the area for at least 13,000 years.

The Scientist Who Studied Bug Brains

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Two hosts and their robot rat Squeaks watch honey bees in a garden and then tell the true story of Dr. Charles Henry Turner, a scientist who proved that bugs can learn and remember. The episode explains his colored-box experiment, which showed bees can see color and return to where they found food, and notes that he was refused a university job because he was Black. It closes with the hosts wondering about their own bee questions and inviting children to experiment. Real bee footage and simple animations illustrate the science and Turner's life throughout.

Saving Ayati

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In a prehistoric jungle, a group of young dinosaur friends is playing games when their giant long-necked friend Ayati topples over and cannot get back up. Led by the inventive Mazu, they try one plan after another, tickling her, pulling with vines, and levering a boulder off a cliff, each of which fails. In the end they lure the enormous Gigantosaurus with a walnut, and he knocks the boulder loose in a way that finally lifts Ayati to her feet. The friends celebrate as Ayati heads home to the jungle before nightfall.

Super Slugs

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Host Jessi and her robot rat Squeaks explore how a sea slug called the emerald Elysia can make its own food from sunlight. From a bright studio set, Jessi explains that plants and algae use chloroplasts to turn light into food, and that the slug keeps those tiny machines running after eating algae. Real footage of slugs, algae and ponds is mixed with simple animated diagrams. The episode closes with Jessi and Squeaks heading to the garden to pick tomatoes for a salad.

Blobfish: The World's Ugliest Animal

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Live-action host Jessi and her robot puppet Squeaks introduce the blobfish, a deep-sea animal once labeled the world's ugliest. They explain that it lives near the ocean floor off Australia, where it is dark, cold, and under heavy pressure, and that its soft, jelly-like body lets it float and feed with little effort. Jessi adds that the fish only looks blobby once nets pull it up from that pressure, and looks more ordinary at depth. The episode ends with the two practicing silly faces together.