‐ Places!
Did it hatch yet?
‐ Not yet!
‐ If there's a more thrilling show on the Natural Channel,
I don't know what it is.
‐ Now this little gal is a fighter!
Come on. Come on!
Here comes the big one! Can she do it?
‐ Yes, Wild Wanda, she can!
‐ Welcome to the world, little one!
‐ That is one tough chick. ‐ Awesome!
‐ Thanks for watching!
And a special thanks to our sponsor.
It's the card game that's sweeping the globe!
Critter Cards!
Now featuring the animals from A Little Wild Habitat!
ALL: Oh!
‐ We're… trading cards?
‐ With my face on a trading card,
everyone will finally get to see how ferocious I really am!
‐ Play your friends and collect all your favorite critters!
Like the outstanding okapi! Or this fabulous flamingo!
Or even… the king of the jungle,
who loves to get his beauty sleep.
‐ That is not what the king of the jungle looks like!
I'm way cuter in person.
See?
GLORIA: Super cute. MARTY: Very adorable.
MELMAN: Rawr!
♪ It's a wild, wild world ♪
♪ And it's calling our name ♪
♪ It's a jungle out there ♪
♪ So let's get on our way ♪
♪ To have fun through the tunnel ♪
♪ See the big, big city ♪
♪ Everybody get ready ♪
♪ Get ready! ♪
♪ Time to go a little wild! ♪
♪ We can go a million miles! ♪
♪ Can I get a "Hey, oh!" ♪
♪ Can I get a "Let's go!" ♪
♪ On a journey, all smiles! ♪
♪ Time to go a little wild! ♪♪
‐ Oh, yeah! Critter Cards!
‐ Psst! 12:00 o'clock, Critter Cards are on the move!
‐ I gotta get a Gloria card! I bet it's powerful yet elegant, like me.
‐ Marty, can you track 'em?
[ kids laughing ]
‐ They've got some at the Souvenir Kiosk, but it's mobbed with kids!
‐ Can you blame them? Who wouldn't want a pack of us?
‐ We'll go low and slow. Melman, think you can lend a neck?
‐ I've got plenty to go around!
‐ Then let's do this!
‐ Oh!
[ Melman chuckles ]
‐ Hey, kids, grab your free packs of Critter Cards!
One to a customer!
‐ If it's free, it's for me.
Here you go, the wildest toy in New York City… us!
‐ My own trading card! It's so lifelike!
‐ Hey, I got a lion card too! ‐ Looks like there's one in every pack.
‐ Guess that means the lion card must be super important!
‐ Found the hippo! Marty, what does it say about my moves?
‐ "The powerful hippo is known for her fighting spirit."
‐ I never saw myself as a fighter.
Then again, I do like to mix dancing with martial arts.
Marty, care for a round of Tango‐Kwon‐Do?
[ Marty groaning ]
Oops!
‐ Uh, I think I'll sit out the next dance.
‐ Melman, let's see your cards!
‐ Here is me!
ALEX: Aww!
‐ Plus I got a lion, a parrot, and…
[ Melman gasps ]
It's perfect!
‐ Is that Ziggy? Or Lou? Or‐‐
MELMAN: It's a Ronathan card!
I shall call him Rona‐card.
Here! You can have the rest.
‐ Are you sure? ‐ Yeah, I'm good.
Rona‐card completes me.
‐ Suit yourself! Welcome to team Gloria, Critter Cards!
♪
‐ You're gonna love it here, Rona‐card. It's calm, and quiet, and‐‐
ALEX: Rules are boring, let's just play!
‐ Rules are the foundation of successful playtime!
‐ Oh! Maybe it's best we get to know each other
over a quiet spot of tea.
[ Gloria humming ]
‐ Hola, amiga.
Nice collection!
Qué impresionante.
You're almost a Super Fan‐imal!
‐ A Super Fan‐imal? What's that?
‐ It's a player who's collected every animal
in the Critter Card kingdom!
‐ Super Fan‐imal, huh?
Uh… There's no way I could get that many cards.
‐ Where's that fighting hippo spirit?
Come on, let's play! Winner takes all.
I've been looking for a sea lion card for my collection!
Surely you've got one in there somewhere.
‐ Huh! Sea lion card? I don't seem to have a‐‐
MELMAN: Rona‐card! You're too much!
[ Melman laughs ]
‐ I'll be right back.
Melman! ‐ Oh! Hi, Gloria!
Rona‐card was just telling me about his biscuit recipe,
weren't you, old chum?
[ crickets chirping ]
‐ What? Melman, I need to borrow your sea lion card.
‐ You mean Rona‐card?
‐ Right. I need to borrow your sea lion card
so I can play Lucia, win her cards, and become a Super Fan‐imal.
Then I'll give it right back.
‐ Uh… I don't know.
‐ Melman, this is how you play Critter Cards.
You gotta get em' all, not feed them tea and biscuits.
[ Melman sighs ]
‐ Okay, but take good care of him.
[ Melman gasps ]
‐ Be right back with your card! I promise!
[ Lucia humming ]
[ Lucia gasps ]
‐ The sea lion card!
I can't wait to get my claws on it!
‐ Not if I can help it! Now how do you play?
‐ It's like rock, paper, scissors, but in this game it's hide, herd, pounce.
Hide beats herd, herd beats pounce, and pounce beats hide. Comprendes?
‐ Sounds easy enough.
‐ Let's see.
My hedgehog hides from your lion, so I'm safe!
My parrot pounces on your okapi. Me again!
And my zebra herds your sea lion. Game over. I win!
‐ But‐‐ ‐ Great game, Gloria. Hasta luego.
‐ How was the game, Gloria? I figured with all your new cards,
Rona‐card would want to have a tea party with his new friends, so I‐‐
‐ I kinda lost your sea lion card.
‐ You what?
[ Melman crying ]
‐ But it'll be fine.
We'll explain to Lucia what happened, then I'll play her again and win it back.
‐ You really promise?
‐ I promise. Come on!
♪
Lucia!
‐ Hola! I'm glad you're here!
Let me guess which animal is on my head.
I haven't been wrong once.
‐ Maybe later. I wanna play you again to win back the sea lion card.
‐ I would love to! But I already lost your cards to Ziggy.
‐ Ah! ‐ All of them?
‐ Well, except this one.
Ziggy already had a bunch. She's a real card shark.
‐ Shark attack!
‐ Ziggy, do you have my‐‐ Uh, Melman's card?
‐ Oh, sorry, pals, I lost them to Odie.
‐ Stay calm.
‐ I am calm.
Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
‐ Don't worry! We'll get it back.
[ Melman screams ]
Odie, do you have the card?
The hedgies?
[ hedgies babbling ]
The parrots?
Dave?
Come on!
Oh, there's Dave!
But where is your card?
‐ Hmm…
Wait! It's in his hand!
‐ I wonder what he's saying to that little kid.
‐ Huh. Dave's telling Shaylee
that balloon is as big as his sister's head.
[ Gloria laughing ]
‐ He's not wrong. How did you learn sign language?
‐ Dave's been teaching me.
Now Shaylee's saying, "I like your cards,"
and Dave just said, "Wanna trade?"
‐ Oh.
GLORIA AND MELMAN: What?
‐ We gotta stop that card!
‐ Ah!
‐ What's this?
Oh! Critter Cards!
‐ Rona‐card! No!
‐ Game over.
‐ Gloria! Melman!
We learned some great animal facts while you were gone!
Did you know every zebra's stripes are unique?
No wonder zebra print is so fashionable.
‐ Here's a not‐so‐great animal fact:
Dave traded our cards to a kid, and now she's out there somewhere,
wandering the city with our goods!
‐ Wow, that's rough.
On the bright side, the roar of a lion can be heard from five miles away!
Huh?
‐ I see you're having fun with your new balloon.
‐ Fun?
Dave needs it for something more important than that.
His Banana Peeling Doohickey machine is off‐balance.
[ Melman gasps ]
‐ What did I do to deserve this?
‐ Marty, can you read this?
‐ "Gather round for a Critter‐rific Birthday
at 43rd Street playground."
‐ Do you know what this means?
‐ That everyone's having more fun than me?
‐ That invitation was attached to the balloon!
That's where Shaylee and her brother are headed.
We'll track them down and get your card back!
‐ How can you be so sure?
‐ Because this hippo's got a fighting spirit.
I'm gonna find that kid and win back your card.
And rebuild my card collection too. Super Fan‐imal style.
Pickles! Dave!
‐ Can't you see he's grieving?
‐ I'm sorry about your balloon. But‐‐
‐ Balloon, shm‐alloon. How about your very own lion card?
I'll even throw in a couple extra.
‐ Oh, yeah, these should work. The tunnels are yours.
‐ Told ya lion cards were valuable!
♪
♪ Aomoa, aomoa, aomoa ♪
♪ Oh! ♪
♪ Let's go find a little adventure ♪
♪ Let's make it a day to remember ♪
♪ Let's find something new We can explore ♪
♪ Oh, explore ♪
♪ Let's go find a little adventure ♪
♪ Let's make it a day to remember ♪
♪ Let's charge through every open door ♪
♪ Adventure's calling ♪♪
[ kids laughing ]
‐ I hope we brought enough lion cards for everyone.
‐ Where's the kid with my Rona‐card?
‐ Not yet, Melman. We need disguises!
‐ There!
‐ Millie, did you see who showed up to the party?
‐ Oh, I saw!
And that Gertrude Shapiro will rue the day she didn't return my salad spinner!
‐ There she is! Aha!
Going to play with the other super Fan‐imals, of course.
‐ Does she still have the Rona‐card?
‐ We can use the swings to get a better look at Shaylee's cards
and set Glo up for success.
‐ Sneaky. But if it'll help me win, I'm game!
Good thinking, Marty!
‐ Well, actually, zebras aren't sneaky.
But, fun animal fact, we do camouflage.
‐ Goodie bags? Sweet!
‐ Critter Cards?
Okay, you guys head to the swings, I'll be right there.
‐ Are you sure this will work, Gloria?
‐ Deep breath, Melman. This fighter is in it to win it.
‐ Okay, let's do this.
‐ Bingo! Come to Gloria.
Super Fan‐imal status, here I come!
♪ I won't be satisfied until I got ♪
♪ Everything I want ♪
♪ And nothing's gonna stop me ♪
♪ Won't quit collecting Until I reach the top ♪
♪ That's just how I rock ♪
♪ I won't be letting go ♪
♪ Gotta have it ♪
♪ Gotta make it ♪
♪ When you want it ♪
♪ Just gotta take it ♪
♪ I want it all I want it all, I want it all ♪
♪ I want it! ♪
♪ And when I want it, I take it ♪
♪ I get what I want ♪
♪ Oh, yeah! ♪
♪ I want it all I want it all, I want it all ♪
♪ I want it! ♪
♪ Can't no one stop us (inaudible) ♪
♪ That's what I got, come on ♪
♪ I want it, oh, oh ♪
♪ I want it! ♪
♪ I want it, oh, oh ♪
♪ Oh, yeah!
♪ I want it, oh, oh ♪
♪ I want it! ♪
♪ Can't no one stop us (inaudible) ♪
♪ That's what I got, come on ♪
♪ I want it all ♪♪
ALEX: I see her cards!
She's just about to turn one over!
‐ Where is Gloria?
‐ It's Rona‐card!
‐ What? Oh!
‐ Woo‐hoo! Yeah! All right!
‐ You guys! There were Critter Cards in the goodie bags!
I think I got a few rare ones!
Whoa. Are you okay?
‐ While you were grabbing goodie bags, Rona‐card got away!
‐ Oops. Sorry, Melman. Follow that critter kid!
Aha! We've got her cornered!
If she wants to keep the sea lion, she'll have to go through me first.
‐ Found her! She's in the toy section.
‐ There's got to be cards there!
‐ Shaylee, you've got a bajillion cards at home,
isn't that enough?
Ha‐ha!
A bajillion and one, huh?
‐ I can't see the cards in her hands!
‐ Let me see. Zebras do have impeccable eyesight.
Best on the savanna, some say.
‐ Could you just look already?
‐ Nothing special in this pack. But hey! I can see the copyright date!
‐ Uh… Thanks, Marty, but I think your eyesight's a little too good.
Time for a Critter‐Card showdown.
Ooh.
A parrot card, just like the one I lost to Lucia!
How about a trade, fuzzy? You wanna trade two lion cards for one?
You drive a hard bargain, but I respect it.
ALL: Gloria!
‐ Sorry! I found a parrot card, which is pretty rare.
‐ Rona‐card has left the building! I thought you had them cornered!
‐ Oh! Well, we'll just… keep fighting.
And following. Come on!
‐ Are you sure you saw them going here?
‐ I may not have zebra vision, but yeah, I'm sure.
[ everyone gasps ]
‐ Wow! ‐ Wow!
‐ This must be where all the cool kids hang!
‐ How are we going to find Rona‐card now?
‐ We'll divide and conquer. Melman, you take the button smashers.
Marty's got the smack‐a‐mole. Alex, search the snack counter.
‐ I promise to leave no snack un‐sniffed!
‐ I'll do a few laps. Bark if you find our sea lion.
‐ A sea lion bark, right?
[ Alex barking ]
I've got a good dog bark too.
[ Gloria sighing ]
[ Melman sniffing ]
[ woman panting ]
[ Gloria gasping ]
‐ There she is!
[ Gloria barking ]
‐ That was a little more walrus than sea lion,
but she got my attention.
WILD WANDA: And that's another win
for our reigning Critter Cards champion, Shaylee!
Joining us all the way from Hoboken!
‐ Shaylee! ‐ Wild Wanda!
‐ Hoboken? Where's that?
‐ Wherever it is, it sounds far.
‐ And it's where Rona‐card is going if we don't get him back!
‐ Any final competitors think they have what it takes
to challenge our Critter Cards champion?
‐ Don't worry, Melman, 'cause I'm a Super Fan‐imal!
And I'm gonna win this thing!
‐ Uh, what about‐‐
‐ And your sea lion card. I'm gonna win that too.
[ Gloria sighing ]
‐ Oh, no! Why is she taking off her disguise?
‐ Trust me.
[ Wanda gasps ]
‐ Uh… ‐ Huh…
‐ If it isn't Gloria the hippo herself!
These animal fan costumes just keep getting better!
[ crowd cheering ]
[ sigh of relief ]
‐ Go, Gloria! Woo!
‐ Looks like we've got quite a matchup here, folks!
Time to get A Little Wild!
[ crowd cheering ]
Okay, challengers, pick your cards.
‐ Huh, let's see.
Did Lucia play the parrot or the flamingo?
‐ Time's up, players! Choose your cards and get ready to flip.
‐ Hmm…
‐ Here we go! Flip the first card.
[ crowd gasps ]
A classic matchup, but this parrot is ready to pounce!
Our hippo gal wins round one!
[ crowd cheering ]
‐ Yes! ‐ Yeah!
‐ And here comes the next flip.
Ready? Flip!
Things are heating up.
That hedgehog can't escape a sloth pounce. Shaylee wins!
[ crowd cheering ]
‐ Sly move.
‐ Go, Gloria! ‐ Please, don't lose.
‐ And now, with our challengers tied, it's time to decide the winner.
Flip that card!
[ Wanda gasps ]
[ everyone gasps ]
The rare sea lion card is famous for its flashy surprise pounce!
It's all come down to this. What do you got, Gloria?
[ crowd gasps ]
It's a zebra herd!
‐ Woo‐hoo!
WILD WANDA: Now that's the move of a Super Fan‐imal!
Zebra herd beats sea lion pounce.
We have a new Critter Cards champion!
‐ Yeah! ‐ All right!
‐ Rona‐card is coming home!
‐ Huh? ‐ This is no ordinary
winner‐take‐all prize.
[ Melman screams ]
Here we play for the grand prize, and it's all yours!
A complete mint‐condition Critter Cards collection!
Congrats to our winner,
and be sure to join us for our next Critter Cards tournament!
‐ Uh, great game, Gloria.
‐ Uh‐huh, sure.
You see how I wiped the floor with that kid?
My fighting hippo spirit wins every time!
Check it out.
Pretty nifty, huh?
It's way shinier than your old sea lion card,
and it's brand new!
‐ I don't know who this card is,
but Rona‐card has a fold in the corner, a hoof print on the back,
and he likes his tea with a lump of sugar!
‐ Come on, Melman‐‐
‐ You broke your promise!
And now Rona‐card is gone forever.
‐ Melman, wait up! ‐ Hang on, buddy!
‐ If I were a sad giraffe, where would I be?
‐ He could be anywhere in the whole‐‐
‐ Take that! And that!
I've got nothing left to lose!
GLORIA: Hey there, Mel‐card, do you wanna play with me?
Of course, Gloria! I'm your best friend.
You're cute, Mel‐card!
But I'd trade anything to have the real Melman back.
Even my whole collection.
This must be how Melman felt!
Rona‐card wasn't a game to Melman, he was special.
Like Wild Wanda said, we all play in our own way.
This hippo is ready to fight!
Except this time…
I'm gonna fight for my friend!
Shaylee dropped some clues!
A Coney Island ticket, a pizza receipt, some bus fare, and…
pop‐corn!
I'm gonna find that kid if it's the last thing I do.
♪ Nothing is more important Than a friend ♪
♪ Friendship never ends ♪
♪ Everything else comes and goes, yeah! ♪
♪ You're irreplaceable, one of a kind ♪
♪ Something to be prized ♪
♪ And I need you to know that I got you ♪
♪ And you got me ♪
♪ And there's nothing coming in between ♪
♪ We got it on, we got it on We got it on ♪
♪ We got it! ♪
♪ When you've got friends on your side There's nothing you can't do ♪
♪ We got it on, we got it on We got it on ♪
♪ We got it! ♪
♪ When you've got love in your life No one's luckier than you ♪
♪ Come on! ♪
♪ We got it, oh, oh ♪♪
‐ A bus token to Hoboken. This is my last hope.
Bingo!
This best friend is back in business!
‐ I'll be right back. We need some more bus fare.
‐ Oh, if only she spoke hippo.
Ah!
Wait a minute!
MELMAN: And then she said, "Wanna trade?"
‐ Hmm… Huh…
Wanna trade?
‐ Oh, a full deck! Awesome!
‐ You're welcome!
And welcome back, Rona‐card. Now let's get you home.
[ Melman groaning ]
KIDS: Woo‐hoo! Yeah!
‐ Oh, come on, I almost won!
‐ No, you didn't.
‐ Come to show off your fancy new card collection?
‐ No, I traded it for something better and way more important.
[ scream of emotion ]
MELMAN: Rona‐card!
‐ I'm sorry, Melman.
I forgot that if something is important to you,
it's important to me too.
[ both sigh ]
Oh! Thank you, Dave.
‐ Hey there, tea party animals! Mind if I join?
‐ Mind? You're the guest of honor!
Well, the second guest of honor.
[ everyone laughing ]
♪ Aomoa, aomoa, aomoa ♪
♪ Oh! ♪
♪ Let's go find a little adventure ♪
♪ Let's make it a day to remember ♪
♪ Let's find something new We can explore ♪
♪ Oh, explore ♪
♪ Let's go find a little adventure ♪
♪ Let's make it a day to remember ♪
♪ Let's charge through every open door ♪
♪ Aomoa, aomoa, aomoa ♪
♪ Oh! ♪
♪ Aomoa, aomoa ♪
♪ Adventure's calling ♪♪