03x07 - Island Trade

[bunniefuu]

- This is me, eliza thornberry,

Part of your average family.

I got a dad, a mom, and a sister.

There is donnie--we found him.

And darwin--he found us.

- [Jabbering]

- Oh, yeah, about our house--

It moves, 'cause we travel all over the world.

You see, my dad hosts this nature show,

And my mom sh**t it.

Okay, so we're not that average.

And between you and me, something amazing happened...

And now I can talk to animals.

It's really cool, but totally secret.

And you know what?

Life's never been the same.

[Hooting and screaming]

[Upbeat percussive music]

♪

- [Screams]

But, I have to go.

- Debbie, you know how I feel about you driving the comvee?.

- But, stone town market is a shopping mecca.

I've done my homework.

I've done my chores.

I've earned this.

I'll even bring along the children.

Please, mom, please.

- Hey, who you calling children?

What's that all about?

- What it's always about: debbie.

- Mom, zanzibar has been a trade island

For, like, hundreds of years.

- How'd she know that?

- If it's about shopping, debbie knows it.

- Now it's my turn to trade here.

- [Jabbering]

- Greetings, kith and kin.

- [Chattering]

[Yells]

[Laughs]

- Dad, don't you think I should get to go

Take the comvee into town?

- Can I go to doctor livingston's house

And the spice plantation

And the maharubi palace?

- Oh, oh.

Maybe a little excursion would burn up

A bit of this excess energy.

- Okay kids, you clean up the comvee,

You can take it on an excursion.

[Both cheering]

- Sight-seeing. - Shopping.

- I'm sure you two will work something out.

- Oh, of course.

- Right, we will.

- [Sighs]

Hey, uncle nige, can't I go to the ngorongoro crater with you?

That'd be way more fun than shopping and sight-seeing.

- I realize they don't compare with the prospect

Of coming face-to-face

With a veritable noah's ark of african animals

All in one breathtaking locale created million years ago

By a cataclysmic eruption.

- Oh, I'm afraid with donnie, and the extra equipment,

And all the film we need to cover so many animals,

We just haven't got room.

I'm very sorry, tyler.

- It's okay. I understand.

- Ty, would you do me a favor?

Could you look after things?

Step into my shoes, so to speak, while we're gone?

- Me be in charge?

Huh, no problem.

Don't worry uncle nigel. You can count on me.

Woo-hoo, yeah.

[Chuckles]

- [Chuckles]

I hope I haven't created a monster.

Marianne, we'd best push off

Before our ferry to the mainland ships out.

- Coming, dear.

- [Sneezes]

- [Sneezes]

- Seems I woke up with a case of the sniffles,

But mum's the word.

Wouldn't want to ruin our trip to the crater.

- [Sneezes]

- Shhh.

Ready when you are, darling.

- Drive safely, and be back by sundown.

- Got it, mom.

- See ya. - Bye.

- Remember, cash doesn't go very far.

They barter in zanzibar.

- Thanks, mom.

Bye, dad, have a good day.

- Bye. - See you later.

- Okay, let's move it.

We're burning up prime shopping hours.

- ♪ When I get my license to drive ♪

♪ I'm gonna leave all you losers behind ♪

♪ The minute that I turn the key ♪

- Oh, think I prefer your mother's driving.

- Debbie's driving is the only way

I'm going to get to see all these places.

First stop, doctor livingston's house.

- [Laughs] no way.

The plan is shopping, shopping, and more shopping.

- Hey, debbie, you can't just--

- Okay, okay. Hold it.

How about this?

Shop all morning, meet for lunch at :,

Then sight see all afternoon.

Now, doesn't that seem fair?

- As long as it's shopping first.

- And sight-seeing all afternoon.

- Then, it's settled.

Smashing.

[All yelling]

- Debbie!

What's all this?

- Stuff I might trade at the market:

My whistle, some old baseball cards, this cool rock.

- Wow, you're trading this?

- No way.

That's my duncan laduke survival kit.

I take it everywhere.

- Yeah, same with my good luck charm, see?

- Oh, cool.

- Pft! Amateurs.

Like anyone would trade junk like that anyway.

You need cool stuff like I've got.

Blow drier, lip gloss, book light, diet soda.

- Your radio?

- Pft. Yeah, right.

What would I use to drown out the annoying sound of you two?

Yes!

Bargains, you can smell them in the air.

- Okay, hurry up and shop.

- Hey, I've got all morning.

- Uh-uh-uh.

Remember the plan.

See you at noon, poppets.

[Both] poppets?

- Dearest, it seems we've lost some of our cargo.

- [Chattering]

- Well, there goes the rest of our cargo.

I'll grab the camera; you grab donnie.

- Right-i-o.

- [Jabbering]

- [Chuckles] oh.

- Donnie! [Coughs]

Come on, my boy.

- [Grunts]

Ooh!

- What was that, dear?

- Um, nothing, dear.

I'm fine.

Let's find those animals.

- [Blows nose]

Shh.

- Oh, like it?

I got such a deal.

- Tick-tock. Time's almost up, debbie.

- I must have that outfit.

- [Grunts]

- May I see that?

- Mmm.

Mm-mm.

- Uh, this for that?

- Mm-mm.

- I don't think he wants to sell it.

- He has to sell it.

It called to me.

- I'll handle this.

I've spent years trading baseball cards.

She wants dress.

What do you want?

- Ah.

Mm-hmm.

- He wants a ride somewhere.

We can give you ride.

We have car right there.

- Ah! Mm!

- Got the keys right here.

So, car ride for the conga?

- Good. Fine.

He can come with us to doctor livingston's house.

Let's go.

- [Laughing]

Oh, this is so me.

- See? Piece of cake.

- What's he doing?

- I think you just traded our comvee for a dress.

Wait! Stop!

[All shouting]

- Stop!

Wait!

- Mr. Merchant man, come back!

- Hey!

Oh, no.

- The comvee!

Tyler, this is your fault.

- I only meant to trade it for a ride.

If you hadn't been in such a hurry I would--

- That wasn't me.

That was--

[Both] eliza!

- Your fault, my fault, who cares?

We have to find out where he took the comvee.

Come on.

- I was gonna suggest that.

- The comvee is our home.

Do you know which way he might have gone?

- Oh, far away.

Other side of island.

Very hard to catch up with him.

- But, we have to get our comvee back.

- There is short-cut-- jozani forest.

But very dangerous.

Many animals.

- Animals? Perfect.

I mean, well, we'll take our chances.

How about we trade you for those bikes?

- A shiny rock?

- Debbie, the guy has no hair.

- And we have no comvee.

Trust me, I know what I'm doing.

[Whirring]

- Oh, so nice.

The bikes are yours.

- Smashing.

- Oh, nigel,

Won't this be perfect for the opening sh*t?

Um, nigel, would you mind grabbing the camera?

I have to, um, get something.

- Mm-hmm.

- [Groans]

I know it's in here somewhere.

- Lost something?

- Ah, no.

Ah, here's that mint that I was looking for.

- [Jabbering]

[Grunting]

- We're here at the ngorongoro crater.

What was once the world's highest mountain--

Twice as high as lofty mount everest...

Dearest, I'm up here.

[Sneezes]

I have--

- Something to tell you.

- [Straining]

Oh, man.

- If it meant having the comfy comvee back,

I'd let debbie drive all the time.

[Yelps] - hurry up you guys.

- We've lost everything.

How are we going to replace all of our stuff,

And where are we gonna sleep?

- Here I am, looking after things,

And one of the things I'm looking after disappears.

This is not good.

- Forget all of that.

The comvee is our home.

It's been through everything with us.

- We're gonna find it and get it back.

Tally-ho, girls.

- I think he's been hanging around dad too much.

- Yeah, but he's right.

Come on.

- Maybe we should go around.

- I'm with him.

- Relax.

What could possibly live here

That we haven't seen a million times?

[Animal yowling]

I never heard anything like that before.

- Um, okay.

Don't panic, girls.

Just back up slowly with me.

[Screams]

- Tyler!

- We need a rope.

- [Shrieks]

- Hurry! The roots are coming loose.

- My conga?

- It's the only thing we've got.

- [Yelling]

No, it's too short!

- [Straining]

We've got you.

- Oh my gosh, the comvee.

- Forget the comvee; pull me up!

[Grunting]

- Come on, we can cut it off at that turn.

- I'm not so sure about this, dear.

You're the technical wizard in the family.

- Well, I'm not exactly crazy

About being on camera either, nigel.

But, if we want to get footage inside the crater,

I'm afraid we don't have a choice.

Oh, besides, how hard can it be?

The animals here do-- no, no wait.

We find ourselves on--oh, cut.

- Darling, you're doing magnificently,

But if I may offer you some constructive criticism,

You may want to enunciate a little more.

- Here in the ngorongoro crater--

- Shouldn't it be making a click, click, clicking sound?

- Yeah, you mean it's not?

- No, not for quite some time now.

- Oh, that means we ran out of film.

- Oh, just when I was beginning to get the hang of it.

[Panting]

- The path is splitting.

Which way should we go?

- Um, left.

[Crashing and thudding]

- Eliza!

- Darwin, let go.

We have to hurry.

[Hooting and rasping]

- That's what I was trying to tell you.

- Red colobos monkeys.

Amazing, but in our way.

Move it!

- [Grunting]

- Perhaps not the best tact to take.

- This is our territory.

What are you doing here?

- I've lost my home, and I've got to get it back,

And going through the forest was our best chance.

So if you and your friends would just get out of our way--

- Talk nice to pretty monkey.

She gets cranky when she hasn't eaten.

- She's not the only one.

- [Yelps]

- Eliza, there's the comvee.

Eliza? - We've lost her.

- Look, you don't want us here, and we don't want to be here.

So how about we make a trade?

You let us go, we give you our lunches, deal?

- Deal.

- Our lunches, must we?

Yes, I guess we must.

- [Grunts]

- [Screams]

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

Good thing I scared them away.

- Oh, yeah, thanks, tyler.

- Lord nelson's trousers!

They meant business.

- Never mind about that.

We've got to catch up to the comvee.

- [Yelps]

Watch where you're going.

- I am. Just hang on.

[Yelling]

Look out! It's a hill!

[All screaming]

- No outfit is worth this.

- Hey, there it is.

- [Chattering]

- And... Action.

- Marianne thornberry here,

Substituting for nigel in the ngorongoro crater.

- Little more chin, dear.

- Which, many believe to be the eighth wonder of the world.

The animals here have never developed a fear of humans,

Which makes the crater a perfect environment

For interacting with many species.

- [Chattering]

- Even donnies.

- [Jabbering]

- That's it.

Oh, no! Look where it's headed.

- The ferry.

That means he's going to the mainland.

- And then to who knows where.

We got to stop him.

[Horn blasting]

- Yes! I think we're gonna make it.

- No.

This can not be happening.

Look who's on the ferry.

- [Sneezing]

- Mom and dad!

We have to distract them so they don't see the comvee.

- If we distract them, then they'll see us.

- A puzzling dilemma,

But one to which I have a solution.

[Horn blasting]

Psst.

I'll give you this cool whistle if you do something for me.

[Ramp clattering]

- [Sniffling]

I hope the children were able to make a few trades today.

Not always so easy for novices.

- I'm sure they were able to trade for a few trinkets.

[Groans]

Thanks for driving, nigel.

[Truck rumbling]

- Looks like a bit of a traffic jam.

[Sheep bleating]

[Whistle tweeting]

- Well, we need to go left, but he wants us to go right.

- I suppose we'll take the scenic route home.

- Yes! Nice going, tyler.

- Um, speaking of going.

- Wait!

Wait!

[All yelling]

- It was a mistake.

- My cousin thought you wanted a ride.

- We have to have our comvee back.

- You get this back; we get that back.

[Whistle tweets]

- But you said you'd never trade that.

- I never lost the comvee before.

Will you take this for that?

- Please.

The comvee's more than just a house we drive around in.

It's our home.

It means everything to us.

Thank you.

- Uh, wait up!

It's a duncan laduke survival kit.

- He can flip, see?

[Laughs]

- Here.

You know, just in case you want to listen to some tunes.

[Horn blasts]

[Together] bye.

- Thank you.

Feels pretty good, doesn't it?

- [Crying]

It feels wonderful.

- Mom and dad!

- Quick, everyone in the comvee.

- We've got to b*at them back to the campsite.

[All screaming]

- Okay, it's cool. Wow.

Hang on!

Both: we're trying!

- Well, in spite of a few sticky wickets,

I'd say we had a jolly good time, wouldn't you?

- Okay, enough!

What is it with you and the nutty lingo?

- Yeah, you've been talking like dad all day.

- Yeah, I kind of took on his role.

Uncle nige did ask me to take his place

And watch after you two.

- Like we need watching after.

- [Chuckles] as if.

[All screaming]

- Well, I thought I did a smashing job.

[Laughter]

- That was close.

- Okay, just act natural.

Hi, mommy, daddy.

- That's natural?

- Back so soon?

How was your trip?

- It was wonderful.

[Stifles sneeze]

How was yours?

- Oh, nothing special.

Ding!

- Is that the oven timer?

Why, it's ndizi casserole!

I love roasted goat and steamed bananas.

When did you learn to make african cuisine?

- Um, eliza?

- Um, debbie?

Both: um, ty?

- Um.

[Laughter]