The BEST episodes of Zoboomafoo

Every episode of Zoboomafoo ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Zoboomafoo!

Meet the Sifaka Lemur, Zoboomafoo, who has the ability to speak. Chris Kratt and Martin Kratt, the two companions of Zoboomafoo, discover more about the world of animals. This show teaches about the lifestyles, habitats, and characteristics of the animal discussed about in that episode.

Last Updated: 11/15/2024Network: PBSStatus: Ended
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#1 - Messy and Clean

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 11/21/2001

It's time to clean out the closet but the more Zoboo tries to help, the bigger the mess he makes! No sooner is everything back in its place, than some European wild boars and a capuchin monkey mess everything up again. Zoboo has lots of fun learning how messy and clean means different things to different animals.

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#2 - Night Time

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/4/1999

A camp-out at Animal Junction gives everyone a chance to discover nocturnal animals—creatures who sleep during the day and are active at night. Binturongs, raccoons, owls, ringtails, and dormice are among those living the night life.

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#3 - World of Legs

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/20/2001

Zoboo spies a larva and wonders what kind of legs this animal will have once it grows. Will it have strong legs like a tiger, hundreds of legs like a millipede or long ones like a kangaroo? When the larva finally transforms into a salamander, its legs are like nothing Zoboo imagined they would be!

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#4 - Crocodilian

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/14/2001

The Kratt Brothers build a time machine and decide to investigate crocodilians, like the American alligator and caiman, but almost get stranded in the Jurassic period with a hungry T-Rex!

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#5 - Talk to Me

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/2000

With the help of the Kratt Brothers and Toothbrush the elephant, Zoboo learns how animals communicate with each other. While Zoboo does his best to answer all of the letters sent in by kids, Martin and Chris go to India to find out how animals talk to each other in the wild.

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1 votes

#6 - Snakebellies

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/2000

Zoboo and the Kratt Brothers find a snakeskin but it doesn't fit the anaconda in the pool, the rattlesnake sunning itself by the window or even the Burmese python. Finally, Zoboo discovers the owner-a trans-pecos rat snake!

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#7 - Brain Power

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/2000

The Kratt Brothers and Zoboo put their heads together with Braniac the really intelligent chimpanzee and build an ""Invisibility Machine."" They meet some other animals with great brains including elephants and crows and discover that all creatures are smart in their own ways.

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#8 - Stinky

Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 3/18/1999

In the creature world, different smells mean different things. When a skunk visits the gang at Animal Junction, Zoboo, Martin and Chris discover the difference between a 'come-here' smell and a 'go away' smell. They also visit with a mink, a creature that scent-marks to let other creatures know that it has passed by. Chris decides to make a Chris scent so he can scent-mark Animal Junction. Jackie gives her friend's dog a bath in tomato juice to get rid of a gift from a skunk that didn't want to play with her.

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#9 - Playtime

Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/1/1999

You know what they say about all work and no play. Thus the Kratts take a break at Animal Junction, playing with lion cubs, serval kittens, ducklings and, yes, children.

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#10 - Fling

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/12/1999

""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.

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2 votes

#11 - Slimy Buddies

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/2/1999

Chris, Martin, and Zoboo explore the good things about slime, from puppies showing affection by licking to the slick coatings that keep frogs from drying out and let earthworms slide through dirt. To help make MudPuppy Pond an even better home for her own favorite slimy buddies—mudpuppy salamanders—Jackie rakes dead leaves into the water.

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#12 - Snow Day

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/3/1999

During the snowstorm of the century, Martin, Chris, Zoboo, and Jackie shelter one very cold Japanese snow monkey and shovel paths for animals having trouble maneuvering through the white stuff.

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#13 - Pop Goes the Tiger

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/2000

Two Siberian tiger cubs arrive in Animal Junction and pounce and pop on every ball in sight as they practice their hunting skills. An effort to make an indestructible superball sends Zoboo and the Kratt Brothers to a place where tigers live-India.

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#14 - Armor

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/16/2001

Zoboo thinks that if he had armor, like his new African crested porcupine friends, he would be safe as he leapt from place to place. After some unsuccessful armor experimentation with the Kratt Brothers, he realizes that his eyes, ears and brain are the best protection he can have.

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4 votes

#15 - Swimming

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/1/1999

The arrival of a couple of river otters prompts a swimming party, with black jaguars, soft-shelled turtles, penguins, and capybaras jumping in. Jackie and her dog Goldie join in with a swim in MudPuppy Pond, where they meet even more water creatures.

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3 votes

#16 - Who's In the Hole?

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/28/1999

A flying squirrel glides in looking for a hole to live in, and a search around Animal Junction reveals lots of other animals—from foxes and rabbits to snakes and porcupines—already living in various holes. When a man starts to cut down a dead tree with a hole in it, Jackie stops him by explaining that it may be the home of an owl.

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#17 - Fast and Slow

Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/2/1999

Between the cheetah and the snail, the Kratts find a great deal about the speed of animals. Then there is the chameleon, which varies speed a good deal.

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2 votes

#18 - Puppies

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/1999

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.

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8.40
5 votes

#19 - Happy Lemur Day

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/29/1999

When two fellow ring-tailed lemurs come to visit, Zoboo is stunned to hear that many people don't know what a lemur is. The Kratt brothers offer to remedy things by declaring an international Lemur Day holiday, complete with party and cake. Jackie rescues two turtles who were heading for a busy highway.

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#20 - The Nose Knows

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/25/1999

Toothbrush, the baby elephant finds Martin and Chris Kratt, roaming about in a cave where bats live. Since Toothbrush has been separated from her family, the Kratt brothers aide her in searching for them. This way, she will be reunited with them again. A garder snake is spotted, when Jackie was cutting the grass. The snake likes being in dark areas, so she doesn't mow down, part of the grass.

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6 votes

#21 - Eye Spy

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/26/1999

After admiring the camouflaged coats and amazing night vision of two visiting black jaguar cubs, Martin and Chris build a pair of ""Eye-Spy goggles""—a contraption that lets them see the world as various animals do. Jackie replants the evergreen that was her Christmas tree and decorates it with apples and popcorn for the birds.

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#22 - Climbing

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/5/1999

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.

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2 votes

#23 - Lids

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/25/1999

The guys have a plan to plant grass seeds to attract the African Crowned Crane to Animal Junction. But, they have a time trying to keep the sheep and goats from eating all the grass beforehand. These creatures have amazing lids like horns on top of their heads. DUCK! Jackie learns about lids, like antennas on different creatures. TO THE CLOSET! Chris and Martin go off to find some more amazing lids. They run into prong horned antelope and a moose. They both have horns and antlers to protect their heads when fighting. CREATURE QUESTION: Written by Anna Bourque Directed by Steve Wright

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#24 - Super Lemur

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/2000

Inspired by a comic book hero, Zoboo becomes a Super Lemur with a little assistance from Muscles and Muscley, two black bear cubs. After Zoboo rescues some kittens, the Kratt Brothers travel to India to find other heroes in the creature world.

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6 votes

#25 - Dinosaurs

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/27/1999

While the brothers are building a model of a dinosaur they call the ""Martinandchrisaurus,"" Zoboo tells them he thinks he saw a dinosaur on his way to Animal Junction. The mystery creature turns out to be a monitor lizard. Jackie breaks open a pellet from an owl's stomach to see its prey's bones and fur inside, then runs into the Kratts while visiting the Royal Ontario Museum to see dinosaur bones.

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