Episode
Zoboomafoo: Itchy
Overview
Everyone has got an itch, whether it's from poison ivy, bugs, or burrs.
Details
- Series
- Zoboomafoo
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 16
- Air date
- 1999-02-15
- Runtime
- 27 min
Episode context
Itchy is Episode 16 in Season 1 of Zoboomafoo. It aired on 1999-02-15. The runtime is 27 min.
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Episode 15: Fling
"Fling" is the nickname the Kratts give to a white-fronted capuchin monkey, which they return to the wild. Jackie learns about the wild when she tries to build a terrarium for a frog.
Episode 17: Ears Hear
Rabbits, bloodhounds, springhares, and foxes weigh in as Chris and Martin want to hear every animal's range of hearing.
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Episode 14: Tracks
Martin and Chris follow the tracks of a lynx through the snow, and Jackie works on protecting her bird feeder from marauding squirrels.
Episode 18: Feeling Good
It's all about animal coats, from porcupine to lynx to duck.
Episode 13: Puppies
The discovery of a litter of eight puppies turns Chris, Martin, and Zoboo into puppysitters. When one of the puppies and a calf both wander off from their mothers, everyone at Animal Junction learns how important it is to keep a close watch on babies.
Episode 19: Running
Martin and Chris run like other animals, beginning with the emu, extending to the crab, the fisher, the gecko, and the cheetah.
Episode 12: Homes
The Kratts help out a beaver who's looking for wood to build a dam, and Jackie and the Animal Helpers build nest boxes for Eastern bluebirds.
Episode 20: Animal Daycare
Today, Animal Junction is full of baby creatures! A baby ring tailed lemur, lynx kittens, bobcat kittens, a sliver fox kit, and baby coatis all need to be taken care of. Chris and Martin build a creature playpen to keep them all in.
DUCK! Jackie and her helpers find a baby bird that fell out of a tree. They make a nest and put the bird back for the mom to find him.
TO THE CLOSET! The guys take a trip to see how different animal moms take care of their babies.
CREATURE QUESTION: What creature is the biggest native North American land mammal and lives in big herds?
Written by Anna Bourque Directed by Steve Wright
Episode 11: Fierce Creatures
Zoboo decides he wants to join a visiting pack of Arctic wolves, so he takes lessons in howling, hunting, and obeying the pack pecking order. But just when he's ready to go home with his new friends, someone explains how different from warm, sunny Animal Junction the wolves' home territory is, and he rethinks his decision. Meanwhile, Jackie rescues a spider who's been stranded in a neighbor's bathtub.
Episode 21: Giants
There are giant animals galore at Animal Junction: giraffe, elephant, camel, and capybaras among them. This leads the Kratt brothers to find the world's biggest deer, biggest lemur, and biggest cat. Trees are also given giant attention.
Episode 10: Climbing
Many animals have unique features that help them climb, from the sticky pads on the bottoms of frogs' feet to the prehensile tail of the kinkajou. The Kratts lose a climbing contest to a band of coatis, whose sharp claws and long tails give them an advantage, while Jackie and the Animal Helpers rescue a kitten who has figured out how to climb up a tree—but not how to get back down to the ground.
Episode 22: Pets
Chris and Martin find a bunch of pets at Animal Junction. They all belong to Jackie and her animal helpers. Zoboomafoo learns how to take care of ducklings, goldfish, a rabbit, puppies, kittens, a crab, and even a calf. We also learn that all pets need lots of love. Zoboo also learns which animals should be pets and which ones should be ""free and in the wild"".
DUCK! While the guys are taking care of their pets, Jackie and the helpers take a raccoon back to his home.
TO THE CLOSET! Jackie shows up at Animal Junction to help the guys take the pets back to their owners.
CREATURE QUESTION: What creature uses Zoboo's hand as the spot to ""go""? As Martin says, ""You told her to go p* wherever she wants"". Ooops, false alarm, it's only pee!!! Funny guys!
Written by Anna Bourque Directed by Steve Wright