The Storm

Square's Very Kind Gesture

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Square finds a rare banana tree with two bananas and decides to give one to his friend Circle so he can be known for a kind gesture. Each time he tries, Circle passes the spare banana on to Triangle, and Square ends up with neither the fruit nor the praise he hoped for. He waits for the tree to grow again, rehearses his plan, and keeps trying. By the end he finally eats one banana at a picnic, still weighing whether to share the other.

The Eclipse

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On Shape Island, friends Square, Triangle and Circle usually spend Friday fun night together, but Circle slips away to watch a total lunar eclipse. When Square and Triangle also spot the red moon, they vow to keep it their special secret, while Circle, who knows exactly what an eclipse is, feels left out. The secret gets passed around in a tangle of fibs and squabbles until Circle finally explains the eclipse and admits she was jealous. The friends make peace and welcome her into their new club, recreating the red glow together.

Square's Big Prank

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Square, a tidy square who likes everything in its place, is pranked every morning by his friend Triangle. Square decides to prank back and, with advice from Circle and a crystal-cave oracle to go bigger, huger, then enormous, he keeps escalating his attempts. His small tricks all fail, but the enormous one accidentally knocks down Triangle's whole house and a mountain. Instead of being upset, Triangle is thrilled and declares their prank war will never end.

Circle's Plan Falls Apart

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Circle, a shape who tends a garden on Shape Island, is waiting for a rare plant to bloom for the first time in a hundred years. When a small creature snatches the plant and runs, she chases it out of her garden and deep into an unfamiliar forest, trying to bargain and grab it back. She ends up lost and upset, having failed to keep to her careful plan. Then she comes upon a whole field of the same flowers in bloom, the creature returns her plant, and the episode closes on a quiet thank you.

Triangle Gets Carried Away

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Three friends, Circle, Square and Triangle, meet each morning on their island to dunk donuts in hot chocolate. Tired of dunking, Triangle builds a giant machine to do it for him, but it copies his every move and spins out of control, carrying him off across the water. Square wants to fetch Circle for help while Triangle keeps insisting he never gets carried away. Circle finally arrives and switches the machine off, its wreck becomes a small island, and the friends gather there again for donuts.

Square's Different Day

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Square lives on a sunny island of cube houses and loves his unchanging routine: he wakes, makes his bed, brushes his teeth and spends each day carrying blocks out of a cave to a pile on the hill. When his friend Circle mistakes one block for a sculpture and asks him to carve a perfect circle of her, Square tries all day and night and accidentally grinds the whole block into rubble. He wakes convinced he has failed and thinks about hiding in his cave forever. Circle returns, sees the leftover rock as a perfect likeness of herself and calls him a genius.

Triangle Day

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On a warm, sandy island, Triangle surprises his friends Square and Circle with Triangle Day, a celebration of his own invention. He leads them through a run of made-up traditions: giving away a treasured possession, a triangle dance, a triangle song that sends them up and down a mountain, and a large feast, while Square and Circle suspect the whole thing is a prank. At the feast Triangle explains that the day is really about getting to be fully himself and sharing it with his two best friends. It closes at sunset as a special Triangle Door opens just for him.

Message in a Bottle

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On a sunny island, Square spends his beach tidying day and discovers glass bottles that a storm washed ashore, each holding a note with a private secret about him and his friend Triangle. Convinced a spy is collecting their secrets, the two build a trap, until Circle explains the notes are her own, written to sort through her feelings and set adrift on the sea. Square and Triangle apologise and pinky promise never to read her notes again, but curiosity wins and they read one more. Circle catches them, tells them she can no longer trust them, and the episode ends with the two friends alone and regretful.

Square's Special Place

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Square rushes to meet his friends Circle and Triangle, who introduces a hiding game he calls 'Shroud and Find'. While hiding, Square discovers a tree hollow and quietly turns it into a special place he returns to on his own. When Circle and Triangle later find and share the spot, it starts to feel different to him, and he stops visiting for a while. The narrator closes by reflecting that you can always go back to your special place, even when you are not there.