Episode
The Wild Thornberrys: The Kung and I
Overview
When the Thornberrys visit the !Kung people, everyone is shocked to discover that Debbie can click-talk. No one is more surprised than Eliza, however, who is only ""cured"" of her jealousy by a !Kung healing ceremony.
Details
- Series
- The Wild Thornberrys
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 2000-02-16
Episode context
The Kung and I is Episode 23 in Season 2 of The Wild Thornberrys. It aired on 2000-02-16.
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Episode 22: Luck Be an Aye-Aye
When Donnie kidnaps an aye-aye for a pet, Eliza must return the ""bad luck"" omen to his home before the villagers hunt him down.
Episode 24: Dear Diary
When Eliza ""accidentally"" reads Debbie's diary she learns that Debbie thinks she's an embarrassment of a sister. Debbie and Eliza have it out and learn the real truth about their relationship.
More episodes from this season
Episode 21: Have Yourself A Thornberry Little Christmas
Eliza goes to desperate measures to help animals survive during tough times along the Skeleton Coast. Her good-will intentions, however, will soon cost her family their entire supply of holiday cheer--and their Christmas dinner!
Episode 25: Black and White and Mom All Over
When a seemingly abandoned panda bear imprints on Debbie, Eliza doubts Debbie's ""parenting"" ability--until a monsoon convinces Eliza that Debbie can handle more than she lets on.
Episode 20: You Otter Know
When Kip and Biederman cause an oil spill, Eliza must save her sea otter friends.
Episode 26: A Tiger by the Tail
Eliza reunites with a Siberian Tiger, and is stunned when the tiger turns on her. Eliza's visiting Grandma Sophie helps her overcome her fears just as she is overcoming her own.
Episode 19: Tamper-Proof Seal
When the Commvee is surrounded by angry seals, Eliza tries her own methods to get them to move. But she learns from her Inuit friend Jim that traditional ways have their value.
Episode 27: Forget Me Not
When the Thornberrys visit Nigel's friend Jomo, they search for an elephant named Rebecca that Nigel saved 20 years earlier. As the family attends to an elephant stuck in a mudhole, Eliza bonds with Rebecca, only to learn that she is old and ready to die.
Episode 18: Dances With Dingoes
Debbie discovers Eliza ""talking"" to dingoes and threatens to tell her parents. Eliza, concerned about the possibility of being shipped back to the United States as a science experiment, seeks help from nearby Aborigines. Together they confuse Debbie into thinking it was just a bad dream.
Episode 28: Song for Eliza
When Eliza tries to swim with the humpback whales, Darwin accidentally knocks Debbie's boombox into the ocean, which creates a distrubing noise and causes the whales to stop their ritual singing. Eliza attempts to set things right, but ends up getting arrested for violating the Marine Mammel Protection Act.
Episode 17: Thornberry Island
The Thornberrys get stranded on an uncharted island, basking at first in all the beauty and the splendor, but discover soon enough that being marooned isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Episode 29: Gift of Gab
Eliza tells Darwin the tale of how she became able to speak to animals, and how she retained her ability to speak to humans as well.