Episode
Snorks: The Backwards Snork
Overview
All-Star and the gang meet a supposedly faceless snork who is just lonely and needs companionship. He is a backwards snork who was exiled for being different. They try to help him save his home from being town down by Governor Wetworth.
Details
- Series
- Snorks
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 1985-11-16
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Backwards Snork is Episode 20 in Season 2 of Snorks. It aired on 1985-11-16. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 18: The Littlest Mermaid
Dimmy meets a little mermaid and falls in love when he saves it. Another Snork falls in love with it too: Dr. Strangesnork. He wants her for her scales for an invention he is working on to take over Snorkland.
Episode 17: A Sign of the Tides
King Neptune's horn to turn the tides over is lost when his dolphin hits it out of his temple. Suddenly, everything starts rising to the top of the ocean.The Snorks try to find out what is happening. They find out about King Neptune's horn and they try to find it. Willie finds the horn and turns it into a clubhouse that he wants them all to see.
Episode 16: Guess What's Coming to Dinner
A young Snorkeater doesn't like to eat Snorks. His pleas fall on deaf ears because his father bans him from the house if he doesn't eat a Snork. Meanwhile, Daffney is teaching Jo-Jo how to talk properly. The Snorkeater catches Jo-Jo, even though he doesn't like to do it. The Snorkeater tell his sad story to Jo-Jo and the gang, and they try to help him out. Unfortunately, Junior sees this plan and assumes that Jo-Jo is helping to Snorkeaters eat Snorks. Junior spreads this rumor around and the Snork guards are sent to stop the evil Snorkeater. In reality, the Snorks are making it look like the Snorkeater is eating Snorks to gain his family's respect. They succeed and no one gets hurt or eaten. Junior learns a lesson about jumping to conclusions.
Episode 15: Gills Just Want to Have Fun
Dr. Strangesnork tries to take over Snorkland again. This time, he creates a giant wave. He creates a big current that blows the Snorks while they are spring cleaning. Daffney then finds a red object and wears it around. Unbeknownst to her, that is a power pearl that the evil doctor uses to control his wave machine. Dr. Strangesnork follows Daffney around to get the pearl back, even if he has to dress up as a girl to get it. He tries some clever disguises to follow his evil plan. Dr. Strangesnork even dresses up as exercise guru, Jane Flounder. Daffney throws away the pearl, and the doctor gets it back.
Episode 14: The Ugly Yuckfish
The Snorks visit the Undersea Fish Exhibits and are looking for the legendary Rainbowfish. Daffney doesn't want anything to do with it because it might mess up her chances for a beauty contest. Daffeny is soon pursued by a Yuckfish. Junior scares it away by taking pictures but the Yuckfish follows them as they leave. Daffney loses her purse and the Yuckfish finds it for her. The Yuckfish really likes her, but Daffney doesn't give him the time of day. She finds him a good home with a Snork rancher, who disgracefully turns the Yuckfish into a sideshow act. The Snorks break him out by pretending to be a circus trainer with a giant fish (Daffney, Casey, and Tooter). The Snorks then take Daffney to the beauty contest where she wins. The Yuckfish joins her on stage and Junior starts laughing and making fun of it. Daffney defends it by saying that it is beautiful and to everyone's surprise, the Yuckfish turns into a beautiful Rainbow Swan fish!
Episode 13: Casey and the Doubleheader
Casye and Dimmy meet a Doubleheader named Red and Ed. They introduce them to All-Star and Tooter. They might by two, but they are so different in every way. Red is an avid eater and ends up eating everything in sight, even Casey's mother's flowers. Then Red makes trouble while no one is looking. In the morning, Red goes around acting like an innocent bystander. Then Galeo finds out that Red and Ed caused all the trouble. Actually, Red caused all the touble, but he sees the error of his ways when they save Casey from a waterfall.
Episode 12: The Shape of Snorks to Come
Junior is thinking about running for Governor one day and goes campaigning. While chasing down local votes, he falls into a hole cause by a sea quake. The hole Junior falls down in sends him flying into the future where there the ruling is very strict. Because he says All-Star, he gets taken to court, The judge gives him 10 years in jail. While in jail, he meets old Casey. Casey tells him that All-Star was the governor's worst enemy and everything about him is illegal. Junior says Wetworth and is let out of jail. Junior gets the shock of his life when the Governor turns out to be HIM! Then the whole town escapes from jail and tehy all chase him. Junior then realizes that he has been campaigning in a bad way and plans to change his ways so it will not end up being like what he had just seen.
Episode 11: Junior's Octopuppy
All-Star, Daffney and Galeo enjoy a nice lunch when Junior comes yelling about a watch he has lost. Occy chases Junior off. Then All-Star tells Galeo that Occy used to be Junior's dog. Three years ago, Junior got Occy to protect him from people whom he accuses as thieves. All-Star helps him out by putting Junior's stuff back. On a field trip, Junior is training Occy, who gets stuck. All-Star and Casey help Occy out and Occy takes a liking to him. Then Junior tries to get Occy to track down and catch a butterfly shrimp. Occy leads him to a cave with a giant snorkeater. Occy leaves Junior and goes to All-Star's rescue when he is chased by the Snork eater. From that point on, Occy became All-Star's pet.
Episode 10: Water Friends For?
Daffney gets tickets to the rodeo, but Casey gets tickets to the hockey game. They get into an argument over events. Daffney goes to the rodeo and the rodeo owners get Daffney into riding one of the horses in the rodeo. Daffney really does well, due to the fact that she only rode the seahorse go round. At the hockey game, Casey is lonesome for Daffney. In the rodeo, it takes a cactus to really get Daffney's horse going! At the game, a special announcement states that Daffney is out of control with her horse. The Snorks then try to find Daffney. Daffney almost gets sucked into a whirlpool, but Casey saves her.
Episode 9: It's Just a Matter of Slime
All-Star meets a kelp helper who is facing a lot of trouble because of what he is. All-Star then makes friends with the kelp helper, but the grandfather is uncertain about all this. This friendship is ruined when Junior insults them. The Kelp helpers all pack up and leave. Because of all the kelp helpers leaving, Snorkland is all full of algae. Everyone has to clean up and it's all the Governor's fault. All-Star goes to the kelp helpers and apologizes to them, but they expect an apology from the governor himself. It takes a giant snorkeater terrorizing Snorkland to set the governor straight. The Kelp helpers really did make a great contribution to Snorkland after all.