Splash and Bubbles
Seal Sitters/From Ray to Zee
Episode 31 | 23m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
The kids meet a new resident, Tyke, a seal pup! / Zee learns she has a distant relative.
Tidy is exhausted from constantly cleaning up behind the new kelp forest resident, Tyke, a young female Pacific harbor seal pup. Splash and Bubbles try to help Tidy by seal-sitting the young seal pup, and quickly learn how hard it is to keep track of their curious and fearless new mammal friend. / Zee learns she has a distant relative in Reeftown.
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Splash and Bubbles
Seal Sitters/From Ray to Zee
Episode 31 | 23m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
Tidy is exhausted from constantly cleaning up behind the new kelp forest resident, Tyke, a young female Pacific harbor seal pup. Splash and Bubbles try to help Tidy by seal-sitting the young seal pup, and quickly learn how hard it is to keep track of their curious and fearless new mammal friend. / Zee learns she has a distant relative in Reeftown.
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- ♪ I swam all around the world ♪ ♪ I've seen this ocean on my own ♪ ♪ And then I found my way to Reeftown ♪ ♪ And I knew that I'd found my home ♪ ♪ And met my friend, Bubbles here ♪ - ♪ Our friendship is the best ♪ all: ♪ Oh, dive in ♪ ♪ With Splash and Bubbles ♪ - ♪ Dive in ♪ all: ♪ We're making friends in the ocean ♪ ♪ Come along with us and see it all ♪ - ♪ With pals like Dunk and Ripple ♪ ♪ We'll explore this world together ♪ all: ♪ When you share adventures with your friends ♪ ♪ It makes them so much better ♪ all: ♪ Oh, dive in ♪ ♪ With Splash and Bubbles ♪ - ♪ Dive in ♪ all: ♪ We're making friends in the ocean ♪ - ♪ In this world beyond belief ♪ all: ♪ Come see the greatest reef ♪ ♪ Oh, dive in ♪ ♪ With Splash and Bubbles ♪ - ♪ Dive in ♪ all: ♪ Start making friends in the ocean ♪ ♪ Come along with us ♪ ♪ Dive right in ♪ - ♪ Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh ♪ - Tidy!
- Where could he be?
- I don't know.
- Oh, dear.
How about we stay away from that pile, huh?
- Looks like we found Tidy.
- Yeah, but who's he talking to?
- Okay.
Oh, boy-boy-boy-boy-boy.
I'm almost done cleaning it all up... again!
So, how about you swim over there, okay?
Huh?
both: Hi, Tidy!
- [yelping] Oh!
Splash, Bubbles.
Boy, am I glad to see you.
- Is someone here, Tidy?
- Yeah.
- Uh, you could say that.
- Well, who were you talking to, Tidy?
- Well, uh-- - Hello!
- [yelps] - Who is this little cutie?
- This is my newest kelp forest neighbor, Tyke.
She's a harbor seal pup.
- Yay!
New friends!
- Hi!
Whoa!
Whoa!
What is she doing?
- Oh, she's nuzzling you with her whiskers.
That's how she learns about new things.
- She's certainly very, uh... friendly.
- Okay, Tyke, remember what Tidy said.
Not everyone likes to be looked at so closely.
- Aww!
She's so cute!
- Yeah!
- Yeah.
Adorable.
- Ooh, pretty colors!
- Aw, thanks, pal.
Whoa!
[laughing] Aren't you a fuzzy little fish.
- What kind of a fish is she?
- Actually, she's not a fish at all.
She's a mammal.
She has fur, she's warm-blooded, and she breathes air.
- Oh, I guess that's why she went up to the surface to breathe air then.
- Yep, she's here.
She's there.
She's kind of all over the place.
- Sounds fun!
You must love having her around, right, Tidy?
- Well, here's the thing.
I love having a new friend here, but keeping things neat and clean around here is a bit harder.
- At least now you have an excuse for that messy algae bed, Tidy!
- [growls] Nobody asked for your opinion, Chipper!
Thank you!
Oh, this seal pup is hard to keep up with.
- Because she's really fast?
- Not exactly.
She moves quickly, that's for sure, but she's not exactly a-- - Tidy!
- Whoa!
- [laughing] Okay, okay.
That tickles, Tyke.
Now, remember what Tidy asked you.
Not too close to the face.
Tidy likes his personal space.
- Yay!
Personal space!
[laughter] - Whoa-ah-whoa!
- Is she okay?
Should we go try to find her?
- No, no.
She's perfectly fine.
Pacific harbor seal pups are very independent.
Lots of harbor seals come through the kelp forest, but Tyke is the only one who keeps coming back day after day.
Huh.
I'm not really sure why.
- I know why.
It's you, Tidy!
- Yeah, she likes spending time with you.
- Aww.
Well, um...
I suppose she is very playful.
But, well, she sure can-- - Whee!
- [screams] Oh, dear, Tyke!
Not my pebble pile!
[wailing] - Wow, looks like Tidy needs our help.
- Yeah.
- [continues wailing] - Well...hmm.
[gasps] Hey!
I have an idea!
Come on!
Hey, Tidy.
Um, Tyke likes to play, right?
- Oh, my, yes.
- How about we take Tyke into another part of the kelp forest to play for a while?
- Yeah!
We'll be seal-sitters for the day!
Huh?
- Do you really think you're up to it?
I mean, Tyke is a real fin-full.
Seal pups are very curious and full of energy.
- Nah.
No problem!
both: What could go wrong?
It all went wrong!
- Oh, she's making a huge mess!
- I'm making a huge mess!
[laughs] - I know!
Let's play a game!
- [gasps] Perfect!
Oh, um... oh, look!
Hey, hey, Tyke!
Look what I found!
A perfect shell for Shell Catcher.
- [gasps] - [laughs] - You wanna play a game, Tyke?
- Play a game!
Play a game!
- Okay!
You're gonna take this shell over to that rock before we tag you.
- Yeah!
- You got it?
- Got it.
both: Shell catcher, shell catcher, Tyke is the one-- - Shell--Wha?
- Did I win!
[both groaning] [laughs] Fun!
What's next?
- Wait, what?
- What?
What's next?
- But we didn't even finish Shell Catcher.
- Hey, Tyke, guess what?
We have another game we can play.
Huh?
Yeah.
You wanna play-- Ah!
Oh, there you are.
Okay.
[chuckles] How about freeze tag?
- Ooh!
I love freeze tag.
- Me too!
Not it!
- Not it too!
Did I win?
- Wait, that's not how you play the game.
- Wait wait, ah!
That's not how you play!
- Fun!
both: Ahh!
- What's next?
- Okay.
Let's try freeze tag again, okay?
Now, Tyke, you stay frozen when I tag you until Splash unfreezes you.
- Yeah.
- You got it?
- Got it!
- Go!
- Okay!
Careful, Tyke!
[laughs] Watch out, Tyke!
- Hmm.
Huh.
- [laughs] - Way to go, Tyke, you did it!
- [laughs] Tag!
You're frozen!
- Wha--oh, no!
She got me, Tyke!
Come unfreeze me.
Come unfreeze me, Tyke!
Where are you, Tyke?
- I think she's gone again.
- [groans] Oh, boy, she's going through our games faster than we can think of new ones.
How are we going to keep her busy all day?
- Well, maybe Tidy will know what we can do with her.
- Yeah, hey, great idea.
You swim back to ask Tidy, and I'll keep Tyke busy.
- Okay!
- [laughs] - Ah, I tell ya, a place for everything, and everything in its place!
Aw, Tidy, old boy, you've got it all figured out!
- [gasps] Tidy?
- Huh?
Oh!
Hey, there, seal-sitter.
How's your day with Tyke?
- Well, we tried playing different games, but every time we start playing, she swims off to check out something else.
What are we doing wrong?
- Wrong?
[laughs] Well, nothing.
Seal pups are just very curious.
If you want to keep her attention, just keep introducing her to something new.
- Ahh!
Great idea, Tidy!
Thanks!
- No problem.
Now, would you mind moving off this section of the algae bed?
I, uh...I just finished cleaning it up.
- Oh, oh, yeah, sure!
- Thanks!
- Bye, Tidy!
- Bye, Bubbles!
[laughs] I bet they're having so much fun.
- Splash, where's Tyke?
Is she okay?
- Oh, yeah, yeah, she's fine.
She just went up to breathe, and I'm just-- Oh, Tidy was right.
She is a fin-full!
- Well, Tidy says that seal pups are curious and they get excited about new things.
So we need to keep showing her new things!
- New things?
[groans] Oh, hey, I got an idea.
How about we do a treasure hunt to find the perfect pebble for finball!
- [gasps] Now you're talking!
Let's start switching up the games!
- Yeah!
- Bubbles!
- Ah, there you are, Tyke.
[laughs] You want to help us out?
We need to find the perfect pebble.
- Perfect pebble?
Find a perfect pebble!
Perfect pebble!
- No, this is too small.
Keep looking.
- Perfect pebble!
- Nope, too big.
- Perfect pebble!
- Um, that's a shell.
[both snicker] Oh, hey, uh, Tyke!
Oh.
Well, I guess-- I guess she lost interest again.
- Yeah, maybe we should take her back to Tidy's.
- Yeah.
- I mean, we don't have any-- - Splash!
Bubbles!
- What?
- Perfect pebble!
- [gasps] - Yeah, that is the perfect pebble.
- Yeah!
- Aww!
Way to go, Tyke!
- Show Tidy?
- Aww.
- Aww, I think she misses Tidy.
Well, maybe we should head back to his place.
- Yeah.
- Yeah!
- Yay!
Tidy!
Tidy!
Tidy!
- She likes that idea.
Let's go!
- Finally, my algae bed is nice and neat and-- - Tidy!
- [laughing] Oh, Tyke, Tyke, Tyke, wait one moment, please.
Oh, no!
Oh, no, no, no, Tyke!
- Aww, looks like she missed you.
- Yeah.
- Well, I've missed her too.
And thank you both for giving me a chance to make everything nice and clean again.
- Clean?
- Yes, of course, Tyke.
You know the rules.
In my kelp forest, we like to keep it nice and clean!
Hit it!
[upbeat music] - ♪ This goes here, that goes there ♪ ♪ Don't put things just anywhere ♪ ♪ Move this out, nudge that over ♪ ♪ Just a little bit ♪ ♪ I like to see things in their place ♪ ♪ I'm working at a steady pace ♪ ♪ Pick these up, put those down ♪ ♪ Ah, that's it ♪ ♪ You gotta remember to ♪ ♪ Keep it clean, keep it clean ♪ ♪ Nice and lush, blue and green ♪ ♪ Keep each thing where it belongs ♪ ♪ You really can't go wrong ♪ ♪ Don't you ever leave a mess ♪ ♪ Always do your very best ♪ ♪ To take care of our world ♪ ♪ And keep it clean ♪ ♪ I'll show you how to do your duty ♪ ♪ Keeping this a place of beauty ♪ ♪ This world has wonder all around it ♪ ♪ So when you leave ♪ ♪ Please leave it as you found it ♪ ♪ Keep it clean, keep it clean ♪ ♪ Nice and lush, blue and green ♪ ♪ Keep each thing where it belongs ♪ ♪ You really can't go wrong ♪ ♪ Don't you ever leave a mess ♪ ♪ Always do your very best ♪ ♪ To take care of our world ♪ ♪ And keep it clean ♪ Keep it clean, I'm begging you.
That's all I'm asking for.
- Pebble!
- Oh, uh, Tyke, where are you going?
- But, Tidy, you've worked so hard to clean up your red algae bed while we were gone.
How are you gonna keep it clean now that Tyke is back?
- Well, I do love to clean, so at least Tyke gives me plenty to do.
[chuckles] Uh, so, uh, Tyke, uh, whatcha got there?
- Perfect Pebble... for Tidy.
I keep it clean!
- [shuddering] Why, you sure did!
That's the perfect spot for a perfect pebble.
- Yay!
- [laughs] Yay is right.
- So, Tidy, what are you gonna do with Tyke next?
- Well, now that I have my algae bed perfectly clean... - Ha!
If you call that clean, I'd hate to see what you call messy!
- [growls] Ooh, I have just the idea of where Tyke and I can visit next.
[laughs] Come on, Tyke!
See ya, kids!
Thanks for your help!
- Aww, bye, Tidy!
- Bye, Tidy.
both: Bye, Tyke!
- [laughs] - Keep it clean!
- Huh, I wonder where Tidy is taking Tyke now.
- I don't know, but he said he had just the idea of where to take her.
[both laugh] - Yeah.
- No, no, no!
Not my nice clean algae bed!
[laughter] - Oh, good luck, Chipper!
- Good morning, Reeftown residents!
It's going to be a fin-tastic day!
Hey, Maury!
Denny!
Isn't it a glorious morning!
- [mutters unintelligibly] - Couldn't have said it better myself.
- [mutters unintelligibly] - Morning, Wave!
Keeping that traffic moving, I hope!
- [laughs] You know it!
- Good morning, Splash and Bubbles!
- Where is he?
- Good morning, Mayor Sting!
Where are you?
Whoa!
- Wow!
- [laughs] Hi, Mayor!
- Yeah, I didn't even know you were there.
- How did you see us?
- Oh, it's just a little sense we stingrays have.
I can always tell where other creatures are.
It really helps when patrolling the reef!
- I bet!
- You two have fun!
- We will!
Thanks, Mayor Sting!
- Bye!
Well, if Mayor Sting says that we need to have fun, we definitely have to find something fun to do.
I'm pretty sure that's a rule.
- Yeah.
Well, let's play hide-and-seek!
- Oh, that's a great idea!
- Yeah, let's-- - Hey, guys!
both: Whoa!
- Oops, sorry about that.
What're you guys up to?
- We're gonna play hide-and-seek.
You want to join the fun?
- Yeah!
- Oh, thanks, but...
I don't think I can play hide-and-seek.
Remember?
I have electroreception.
That means I can sense where you are even if I can't see you.
- I don't know about that.
I'm pretty good at hide-and-seek.
[both laugh] Close your eyes.
- Okay!
- This is gonna be so good!
Okay, go for it, Bubbles!
- All right.
- Yeah.
[laughs] Okay.
Okay, Zee, where is Bub-- - Behind the rock.
- What?
- Huh?
Whoa.
- And now she's behind that rock, and, Splash, you're right next to me.
- What?
- What?
[groans] - And now she's right behind me.
- What?
[laughter] - Wow, Zee, that was incredible!
You're so lucky that you have electroreception.
- Yeah, I wish I could do that!
- But that means that I can't play any games where I have to find you, because I'd always know where you were.
- Yeah, I didn't really think about that.
- I love being a shark.
But it's not easy feeling different from everyone else on the reef.
- Yeah.
When I first moved to Reeftown, there weren't any yellowback fusiliers around to play with, and well, I felt kinda different, too.
- True, but still, you were a fish like us.
- I wish there was another shark living on the reef.
Oh, hi, Maury!
- What?
Did you just say something about another shark coming to Reeftown?
What kind of shark is it?
A big shark?
Should I spread the word?
- No, Maury, Zee was just talking about how she's the only shark here.
- Yeah.
And that there's no one like her in Reeftown.
- Oh, right, right, right, right.
I gotcha.
Of course, Zee is the only shark in Reeftown.
That's true.
Uh, although I did hear something about a distant relative around here that's like her.
- Wait, what?
But you just said I was the only shark.
- Oh, you are!
I don't have all the details, but I'm sure that I heard that Zee has another relative on the reef.
So, uh, bye!
- I have a distant relative on the reef!
This is so exciting!
I wonder who it is.
- It's like searching for a long-lost cousin!
- Or aunt or uncle!
The possibilities are endless!
- Yeah, but uh, well, how do we find out who it is?
- Well, any relative of mine has to look like me, right?
Like how I have five gill slits on each side.
- One, two, three, four, five!
Yep, that's how many there are.
- And don't forget my teeth.
Not a lot of fish have teeth like a shark.
- There's a lot in there.
- Yeah, that's true.
[gasps] Hey, I know someone who has great teeth!
- [gasps] Who?
- Chompy!
all: Hey, Chompy!
- Well, hey, y'all!
Come to see me clean the algae from the coral?
- Nope!
We came out so I can hang out with my cousin.
- Yeah!
- Cousin?
[laughter] - Yeah!
You two have to be cousins, because you both have such wonderful teeth!
- Oh, my!
I didn't know I had a "tooth cousin."
How exciting!
And I am very proud of my teeth, and yours are amazing as well.
- [laughs] Well... - Ooh!
This is going to be so much fun!
- You know it!
- Oh, well, let's chomp on some coral then!
- Oh, um, okay... [chomping and crunching] Ooh!
Ooh!
Ow!
Ow!
Ooh, that coral is hard.
Ooh, ooh, wait, ooh.
I think I'm gonna lose a tooth.
[spits] - Whoa.
- What just happened to your wonderful tooth?
- Oh, it's okay.
I always loose teeth, but they get replaced by new ones.
Don't you do that?
- Oh, my, no!
That would be disastrous for me!
I don't know what I'd do if I lost one of my teeth.
[whimpers] - Guys, I don't think my teeth are the answer.
- Yeah.
Well, how about we look for someone with special gills instead?
- Yeah!
And I know someone who has really special gills.
Let's go see Gush!
Hmm.
Where could he be?
- Hmm, he's gotta be around here somewhere.
- Don't worry.
I know right where he is.
He's right between those rocks.
Uncle Gush!
- Huh?
What?
Uncle who?
Oh.
[laughs] Hi, kids.
Wait, did you just call me "Uncle Gush"?
- Yep!
We learned that Zee has a distant relative on the reef.
And it must be you, because of your gills!
- Oh, and look!
Gush walks on his fins just like Zee!
[laughs] I knew it would be Gush!
- I don't think that means that Zee and I are related.
- Really?
Are you sure?
- Well, even mandarin dragonets like you, Bubbles, can walk on their fins.
[both gasp] both: Does that mean we're fin-walking cousins?
- [chuckles] It takes more than fin walking to make someone related.
both: Oh.
- Oh.
Well, uh, what about your special gills?
- Oh, well, my gills sure are special.
They give me a great turbo boost!
- There he goes!
- Wow!
- Ooh, let me try!
Go turbos!
Go turbos?
- Oh, boy.
- I don't think I have turbo boost with my gills.
- Well, I have it because it helps me catch my food.
Of course, that and my camouflage.
- Which is very impressive.
- Yeah, I mean, we didn't even see you.
Zee was the one who found you.
- Well, that's just because I used my electroreception again.
- [gasps] That's right!
You can tell where creatures are without seeing them.
Bubbles, I think I know exactly who we should talk to.
- Who?
- Hello?
Mayor Sting?
Hello?
- Where is he?
- Are you sure he's around, Zee?
- Oh, he's close.
I can sense him!
- Hey, kids!
all: Mayor Sting!
- How goes the day?
- We're trying to find Zee's distant relative!
- Yeah, Maury said I have a relative right here in Reeftown.
But we haven't found him yet.
- Well, don't give up.
You do have a distant relative right here on the reef!
- Who is it?
- I can tell you you're very close to finding out.
- [gasps] Mayor Sting, you have a lot of gill slits.
- Yep!
Five on each side.
- Just like Zee.
Right, Zee?
- Wait a minute.
Mayor Sting, are you related to me?
- Of course!
Stingrays and sharks are related.
- Wow!
- Wha--Wait, wait, wait, wait!
But you look so different.
- You don't have to look the same to be related, it's what's on the inside that matters: from the cartilage in our bodies to the five gill slits on each side.
And here's another thing: stingrays have electroreception that helps us know where creatures are without seeing them.
- [gasps] I thought I was the only one!
- That is incredible!
Who knew stingrays had electroreception?
- Or that sharks and stingrays were related!
[laughter] [upbeat music] ♪ I never knew!
♪ - ♪ Never knew!
♪ - ♪ I never knew about you ♪ ♪ And all of the amazing things you do ♪ - ♪ Yeah, I know You're different than me ♪ ♪ The more I learn who you are ♪ ♪ The more I like what I see ♪ - ♪ There's so many things about you ♪ - ♪ I never knew ♪ - ♪ Now I do ♪ - ♪ Yes, I do ♪ - ♪ Yes, I do ♪ ♪ When I met ya ♪ - ♪ I didn't get ya ♪ both: ♪ I'd never seen anyone like you before ♪ - ♪ So glad I took another look ♪ - ♪ Every day I'm learnin' more and more ♪ ♪ I never knew ♪ - ♪ Never knew ♪ - ♪ I never knew about you ♪ - ♪ And all of the incredible things you do ♪ both: ♪ And you know ♪ - ♪ I'm different than you ♪ both: ♪ Day by day ♪ - ♪ You got to know me too ♪ - ♪ I have a brand-new point of view ♪ - ♪ I never knew ♪ - ♪ Now I do ♪ both: ♪ Yes, I do ♪ - ♪ Yes, I do ♪ - ♪ In so many ways we're different ♪ - ♪ In many, many ways we're not ♪ - ♪ I got to know you little by little ♪ - ♪ And little by little I found I liked you a lot!
♪ - ♪ I never knew!
♪ - ♪ Never knew!
♪ - ♪ I never knew about you ♪ both: ♪ And all of the amazing things you do ♪ - ♪ Yeah, I know ♪ - ♪ I know ♪ ♪ You're different than me ♪ - ♪ The more I learn who you are ♪ ♪ The more I like what I see ♪ both: ♪ There's so many things about you ♪ - ♪ I never knew ♪ - ♪ Now I do ♪ - ♪ Yes, I do ♪ - ♪ Yes, I do ♪ both: ♪ Yes, I do ♪ - ♪ Yes, I do ♪ - ♪ Whoa-oh-oh-oh ♪ [laughter] - It is so amazing that sharks and stingrays have so much in common!
- Yeah!
- I'm just so happy now to know that there's someone like me on Reeftown!
- I hope this means you won't feel different anymore.
- You know what?
You guys have always accepted me just the way I am.
It didn't matter if I was different.
- Well, of course!
You're our friend no matter what.
- So what do you want to do now?
You want to play a game?
- Actually, I think I want to spend the day with some family.
It's not every day you discover you have an Uncle Mayor Sting.
[laughter] - Well, then come on!
Let's patrol the reef together!
- Oh, okay.
Bye, guys!
- Bye, Zee!
- Wait for me!
- ♪ Da-da, da-da ♪ ♪ Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Da-da, da-da ♪ ♪ Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh ♪ ♪ Da da da da da ♪ [children giggling] [dragonfly buzzing]
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