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03x35 - Creepy Crawly Animals

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Amazing Animals". Aired: April 16, 1996 – July 6, 1999.*
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Each episode is made up of sections in which Henry is featured, video sequences of animals narrated by the off-screen narrator with replies by Henry, and cartoons featuring recurring unnamed cartoon animals.

03x35 - Creepy Crawly Animals

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so

thank you

right

welcome to the world of amazing creepy

crawly animals

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henry what are you doing under there ah

it's yoli narrator well i'm trying to

put this tent up

this i gotta see okay

that should do it and i got all those

poles left over

i don't think you're supposed to henry

but anyway what's with all the

ye oldie stuff glad you asked violet

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somewhere around here is a rare species

of dragon

scarier striking and i'm going to find

it

oh it makes my skin crawl just thinking

about it

don't move henry there's something

behind you what is it

the dragon what's it doing get it off

get it off

oh what happened there

brave sir henry got frightened by an

invertebrate a what

invertebrate creepy crawlies animals who

have no backbone

like your tent so that's what those

extra poles were for

there are millions of kinds of

invertebrates henry but you can call

them creepy crawlies

see how many you can think of i think

spiders are pretty creepy

you creepy crawly you're right and all

those squishy things in the sea

like nudie branks right again scientists

have divided the animal kingdom into two

different camps

summer camp and snail cat no

animals with and without backbones

snakes are creepy

and i wouldn't go to camp with them but

they've got backbones

well bats are very creepy and they have

bug breath

but they're not creepy crawlies

how about beetles they must be creepy

crawlies

you're right all insects are

invertebrates

they keep their skeletons on the outside

you mean

what i thought was an ant's skin is

actually his skeleton

that's right let's make no bones about

it

that's amazing

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oh

the brave knight sir henry pursues the

dreadful dragon

through fearsome forests and monstrous

mountains

crossing venomous valleys and raging

rivers right

an ant could cross that no problem but

i'm only little

i'll get my feet wet all right brave

knight why don't you take the easy

option and use this oh no

verily thou art making fun of survive i

shall find the safe way of transporting

myself

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[Applause]

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but henry why don't you just take

good grief for the last time i told you

you could just use the

bridge i know i could use

the bridge

when it comes to crossing water henry i

think you'd better leave the tricky

stuff to our creepy crawly friends

they make it look so easy those animals

are called pond skaters can you guess

why

maybe because they skate on ponds bingo

but wait i don't see any skates on those

guys who are they kidding

they have something better their

microlight bodies don't get weighed down

in the water because a forest of tiny

leg hairs spread the weight across the

water's surface

just like snowshoes i wish i could do

that

sorry henry there are only a few

invertebrates that can do it

this water measurer is another one i'd

get sick of water walking anyway

not if your dinner depended on it

what are they dinner water measurers

love them

i think i'll eat out they're called

springtails

i don't see any springs their springs

are hidden

you only see what they do what do you

mean

wow that's what i call spring break they

sprang to safety

that hop is equal to a man jumping over

a three-story building

the water measuring guy hasn't got a

chance

guess i got that one wrong

but i bet you guessed this one right

henry

a millipede it's kind of like watching a

parade go by

since we call them creepy crawlies i

thought it'd be fun to have a look at

some of the many ways they creep and

crawl

what do you think sounds good let's rock

and roll

and jiggle and

wiggle

the way these creatures get around it

makes me wanna giggle yep

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then you get your flappers and your

hoppers

your shakers

and your fakers

who's he trying to kid

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so how was that creepy but cool

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oh no my tent what is it it's like a

little house with poles but that's not

important right now

looks like you got moths henry moth

schmoths

this be the work of the fire breathing

dragon

moths can be pretty damaging and there

are lots of other creepy crawlies that

bite and sting

there's hornets and spiders and

scorpions and bumblebees

and some so small you can barely see

them like fleas

and mosquitoes

ah safe at last

don't speak too soon henry oh no

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every animal has to eat henry and it's

not just mosquitoes that take on

oversized meals

this fishing spider is looking to land a

whopper

you mean a big fish don't you yes

it's using its front legs is bait

come on spiders can't catch fish you

don't think so

wow

that's truly amazing but i'm

not sure i like its table manners

at least they're better than the house

flies they really take the cake and the

meat

and the pizza and that little thing your

dog leaves behind

too before they can eat flies must throw

up all over their dinner turning it into

a liquid which they can suck up through

their straw-like mouths while they're

mucking up your taco they're laying eggs

in your enchilada

and that's why we say

but if you think flies are a living

nightmare then get a load of this jewel

wasp she's a body snatcher what

she's just building a nest for the jewel

wasp her nest doubles as a tomb

oh no how far perhaps this

unfolding c*ck the c*ck must

be 10 times bigger than she

is but the wasp injects a paralyzing

poison

and then cuts off the c*ck's

antenna making it easy to pull it into

the nest

welcome to wasp motel gets chicken

and then they throw away the key you're

right henry

the wasp seals up her prisoner behind a

wall of pebbles

buried alive in a terrible tomb all

alone with no food

no water no cable tv well not quite

alone

there's a wasp egg in there too so he'll

have something to eat

in this story the egg does the eating

what when the egg hatches the wasp

maggot burrows into the roach's living

flesh

only emerging as an adult wasp when it

has devoured the entire c*ck from

the

inside out excuse me but that's

disgusting and that's no way to treat

your babysitter

either

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[Applause]

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henry it's time for your news report

what now yes now

out of my way germa lizard coming

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through

in business the crack market fell

sharply

and koala climbs to hey who hate rewind

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but now our top story

an alien invasion was unearthed in the

local park today

scientists believe the little critters

have been crawling around

unnoticed since the dawn of time

although local residents were told not

to panic pandemonium had set in

the pigeons were petrified the starlings

were startled

and the rabbits were nowhere to be seen

the dogs were ducking down the ducks

were cracking up and the squirrels went

nuts

one eyewitness brave enough to look

described the strange alien heads as

having huge jaws

big bug eyes with giant antennae on top

as the alien army headed for the picnic

area the question on everyone's lips was

why have they come what do they want

from our planet the answer it would seem

ham sandwiches

and next the weather the weather the

weather i got it right

or whether i got it wrong take a guess

rats

just have a look around henry the truth

is out there

alien invasion e.t phone home but not on

my mom and dad's line okay

these are insects henry not aliens but

how can you be so sure

aliens are portrayed with these praying

mantis eyes

but the truth is stranger than fiction

even science fiction

the jumping spider has eight eyes

including two in the back

handy for driving the ufo backwards

creatures come plenty weird right here

on earth like the lantern moth

alien pardon it's an alien

look at that huge head it has eyes on

the back of its wings

eye spots may have evolved to scare

predators into thinking the moth is much

bigger

that's one theory oh well what's yours

they've come from space to conquer the

earth

check this guy's head out

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his alien brain's too big so he

transforms when no one's looking

henry that's a titsy fly from the planet

planet earth and it does that to help

break out of its pupa case

i think you're one of them an alien

narrator

you've come for me haven't you ah earth

creature

you are making me very irritated

what's the matter henry can't get to

sleep what

i said what's the what

i can't hear you i can't sleep with all

these

crawly creeps making a racket ow

of course you realize this means

w*r you can't win henry

try turning the light off nocturnal or

nighttime insects

are attracted to light i'll try anything

that's better time for some shut-eye

ah at least now i've got nothing to

attract those infernal nocturnal bugs

the knight is alive with creepy crawlies

henry

and the animals which hunt them

a full moon really brings the night

shift to life

especially the moths a dedicated moth

hunter

the bola spider secretes a ball of glue

so sticky that for moths one touch and

you're stuck

that's super glue like a fisherman the

spider waits patiently for a nibble

shh you'll scare him

got one reel him in spidey the

glue contains an identical scent to the

one female moths use to attract the

males

doom perfume male moths pick up that

smell from several kilometers away

a lot of good it did him he's in a

tailspin

now those moths are big those aren't

moths

they're bats oh south american

vampire bats hold on this show's about

creepy crawlies vampires don't eat bugs

they suck blood look a little closer

henry

it's covered in lice the lies survive by

sucking blood from this blood-sucking

bat

that's called getting a taste of your

own medicine

and now ladies and gentlemen

it's time for henry's amazing golden

gecko awards

the winners of my all-time best creepy

crawly animal

are

my place goes to that bouncy little

bunny from teeny tiny town

the springtail

in second the fishing spider who

couldn't be with us tonight because he's

you guessed it going fishing

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tonight's golden gecko award for best

kitty crawly goes to a group with nearly

half a million hit species to their name

the most successful band on the insect

charts the beatles

on a magical mystery tour of shapes and

colors

the hercules beetle has a massive

foreign section but our spotlight

tonight is on the fearsome

tiger beetle why they named it after a

tiger when it's got spots i'm not sure

but with jaws like that no ladybug is

going to stop and ask questions

the tiger beetle is the fastest beetle

going but it has to stop all the time

its legs are so fast its brain can't

cope

and the beetle goes blind it needs to

slow down just so its brain can catch up

again

even with all those brain breaks it's

still too fast for the ladybug

lucky for her she's too big for a

mouthful and too

tough to crack but the beatles got to

eat to survive

how about a nice juicy caterpillar poor

guy

his chances of ever becoming a butterfly

just went way down

too late he's beetlejuice so there you

have it

the tiger beetle collects tonight's

award but remember he's only one of

thousands of other beetle winners

he just happened to get here first

[Applause]

[Applause]

hmm

[Applause]

brave sir henry has captured the

dragon caught off guard sleeping in his

lair

the dragon's lair wow you are being

brave henry

are you sure you've got everything under

control oh yeah

well just in case i made this the

ultimate dragon trap

even an invincible dragon couldn't get

through this

no but an invincible insect might insect

look i'm hunting dragons here and you're

still on about itty bitty creepy

crawlies

what can they do against my magnificent

trap

oh what now that's what i call

invincible

those termites sure know how to eat

through wood

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but now that the dragon can escape

it's not a dragon it's a dragon fly

huh but

what no scariest giganticus no

invincible dragon

no henry but dragon flies belong to a

group of animals that have been around

for millions of years

in their own way they are just as

invincible as dragons

and such a cute little thing

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dragonflies got their start way back

when much of the earth was covered in

swamps

back when you were just a little

narrator

i mean before the time of dinosaurs very

few of the animals that lived today were

around them

what about lizards no lizards

[Applause]

but there were dragonflies the first

insect to ever fly

what did they look like just the same

four

see-through wings and a body split into

sections

head shoulders knees and toes knees and

toes

it goes head thorax and abdomen

but they weren't all exactly the same

there was one kind that grew up huge

with a wingspan the size of a chicken

what happened to them did they get fry

time marches on henry

species come and species go

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just imagine all the changes dragonflies

have seen

volcanoes the drift of continents floods

the fall of dinosaurs frozen yogurt

huh but insects are a force of nature

too

they have the advantage of sheer numbers

for every person on the planet

it's believed there are 200 million

creepy crawlies

somebody shut the door people in africa

and the middle east

have always dreaded locusts like the

plague in one day a swarm of locusts can

eat through enough crops to feed

500 people for a whole year that's why

people created pesticides

from the number of bugs i've seen i

guess they don't work too well

now you're right many insects like these

leaf cutter ants learn to adapt and live

right alongside us

evict those pesky insects at once we

can't get rid of them all remember we

rely on many of them to pollinate the

plants that provide us with oxygen

true but they can still ruin a picnic

like nothing else

ah time to go home sweet home

and where there's not a creepy crawly in

sight

that's what you think henry no way

no uninvited invertebrates at my house

buzz off puff

you can't win against invertebrates you

should know that by now

they're everywhere every how and always

have been

you can't fight them that doesn't mean i

have to like them

face it henry there's nowhere you can go

that amazing creepy crawlies can't

follow

at least i found out there are no real

dragons around here

that's some comfort i suppose

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