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"A Creature Christmas" is collectively the 3rd and 4th episode of Season 4 of the PBS Kids show Wild Kratts. It is the 95th and 96th episode of the series overall. It premiered on November 25, 2015. It is a two-part episode, originally airing as an hour long Christmas special.
Summary[]
In this one-hour special, it's Christmas time and the Wild Kratts are taking a break from creature adventuring to celebrate. But when the Wild Kratts receive an alert that their favorite creatures are suddenly disappearing around the globe, their holiday party quickly turns into a rescue mission. Our heroes must race against time to thwart their greedy archrivals' most miserly scheme yet! Will they be able to travel to the ends of the earth and return their baby animal friends to their homes in time for the holidays?
Plot[]
The episode begins with a live-action segment. The Kratt brothers are at the Zoo Sauvage de St-Félicien in Saint-Félicien, Quebec. They check out "Christmas creatures" such as reindeer, white-tailed deer, and caribou. Afterward, they ask their "What if?" question, and the show transitions into the animated segment.
Martin and Chris are in their Wolf Creature Power Suits howling with a pack of wolves. Afterward, they return to the Tortuga, deactivate, and get ready to decorate the Tortuga for their team's annual Christmas party. While their fellow teammates decorate the Tortuga's interior, the Kratt brothers head outside to hang decorations on a big tree. After seeing a pine marten and a red squirrel chasing each other in the tree, the Kratt brothers get the idea to decorate the tree with Creature Powers. They jump into the tree, find the animals, and activate their Creature Power Suits. They jump into the box of decorations and begin decorating the tree. However, they feel exhausted even though the box is still full of decorations. Chris calls Aviva and asks her to activate a bird Creature Power to help them out. Since she is busy wrapping Christmas presents, Aviva gives Koki her Creature Power Suit and tells her to activate a Creature Power. A blue jay lands on Koki's head, so she activates Blue Jay Power. Koki flies out the Tortuga and helps the Kratt brothers finish decorating the tree. They deactivate and Martin and Chris want to open the presents, but Jimmy tells them to eat Christmas cookies and hot cocoa first, then the Wild Kratts proceed to open their gifts, Aviva gives them the gifts she created for them, she gives Koki and Jimmy normal sized gifts, Chris a giant gift and Martin a tiny gift (which surprises him since it wasn't exactly what he thought), Aviva tells everyone to open their presents but then they hear the Wild Kratts' alarm so they leave their presents and go to see, Martin feels a little sad about having the smaller gift but puts it in his pocket and runs inside.
In Tortuga, the Wild Kratts see that they have an alarm from China, Yi tells them that Donita is freezing all the baby animals and taking them, she caught Stuffo, Lost and Found and Blue Goggle, Martin is outraged since it is almost Christmas and stealing baby animals has nothing in the Christmas Spirit and Chris adds that they planned to listen to Christmas Carols, not alarms of animals in danger, then they receive a second alarm from Madagascar, Patricia tells them that Gourmand arrived with a truck full of animals from Continental Africa, in which Thornsley, Hipster, Nubs and Spot Swat are and he also catches Gold Puff, then they receive a third alarm from United States, Gavin and Ronan tell them that Zach is trying to look like an evil Santa Claus, he caught Slider, Bandito, Buddy and Twig, Little Howler, Dandelion, Lightning and Fluffy Flier and is taking them away, Martin thinks that they are trapping all the baby animals they have ever met and he has named them and Chris wonders why the villains do that. It turns out that the 3 villains' plan is to turn the Spirit of Christmas into personal selfish gains using innocent baby animals to achieve it and Zach built a shopping center (Varmitech Village), Donita is going to put the baby animals in Christmas decorations which will be hanging from Zach's giant robotic Christmas tree which will be in Varmitech Village where Gourmand will have Christmas Cookies, thereby attracting shoppers and making them spend all their money, being that plan so horrible that it leaves the Wild Kratts horrified.
The Wild Kratts are forced to stall their Christmas party in order to save the animals from the villains. Koki tells Jimmy to take the Tortuga up into space and reveals that the villains have split into three different continents and it would take forever to track them all since the distances be. The Wild Kratts then head to the Tortuga's garage, where they find Space Pods. Martin gets into the Createrra VX, drives into a Space Pod, and descends down to Earth to go after Gourmand, who is in Madagascar. Later, Aviva and Chris get into separate Space Pods and respectively go after Zach, who is in North America and Donita and Dabio, who are in South America.
Martin lands in Madagascar, finds Gourmand and runs toward him to release the animals he captured, but Gourmand places his fist in front of Martin's face, essentially immobilizing him. Gourmand then directs him to a tree, kicks the Createrra over the edge of a cliff, and sticks him to the tree with cookie dough. He then packs up and leaves. In the Great Plains, Aviva tries to stops Zach, who is riding a sleigh pulled by Zachbots. She unleashes robotic arms from her backpack to help her release the animals he captured, but the Zachbots take advantage of the robotic arms to pull her up to the sky and to tie her up. They then leave Aviva on the ground while Zach rides off into the sky. In South America, Chris finds Donita and Dabio riding a hovering chaise longue and demands that they release the animals they captured. Instead of releasing them, Donita throws fabrics on him with a different shade of green and covers him with green glitter, turning him into a glittery green Christmas elf. Chris then falls out of his transport and into the forest canopy while Donita and Dabio ride out of sight. As a result, Martin, Chris, and Aviva are all unsuccessful in saving the animals.
Koki and Jimmy pick the Kratt brothers and Aviva up. Despite failing spectacularly, the Wild Kratts still insist on saving the animals, and continue to stall their Christmas party in order to do so. The Wild Kratts find out that the villains are coming together at the same location in North America, which turns out to be "Varmitech Village", a shopping mall owned by Zach Varmitech. Once they arrive, they watch in shock as the villains finish setting up a giant tree decorated with animals frozen in suspended animation. To save the animals, Chris activates Spider Monkey Power by touching Grabsy the spider monkey, while Martin activates Chameleon Power by touching Target the chameleon. Chris swings across the tree and picks up the frozen animals. Martin shoots out his tongue and sticks it to the ground. Using Martin's tongue as a cable line, Chris places the animals on the tongue and lets them slide down to the ground, where their teammates unfreeze the animals. After unfreezing all the animals, the Kratt brothers deactivate, and they and their teammates play around with the animals. At first irritated, the villains eventually develop a shift in mood and tell the Wild Kratts that they are in the Christmas spirit. The villains then hand them each a present and ask them to open them. However, after lifting up the covers, the presents attack and entrap the Wild Kratts. After admitting that they were only pretending to be in the Christmas spirit, the villains take the Wild Kratts' possessions, including the Kratt brothers' Creature Power Suits and the Tortuga, although Zach decides to leave the Creature Power Discs with the Wild Kratts as a reminder of their defeat and the villains' superiority against the crew. Later, the villains illogically leave the Wild Kratts to die on an ice floe in the middle of the Arctic ocean before returning to Varmitech Village.
While lying sullenly on the ice flow, Martin takes out the tiny present Aviva gave him during the Christmas party. Aviva, jumping up and down in joy, tells Martin to open it, explaining what is inside can save them. Martin opens the present to reveal a keychain with buttons arranged in the shape of a paw. Aviva tells him that the keychain is an alarm, and knowing Martin is so disorganized, made it for him to alert him of the location of his things. She presses one of the digits, which turns on a beeper embedded in Martin's Creature Power Suit. She then presses the big paw pad, which causes not only Martin's but also Chris's Creature Power Suit to hover and fly out the Tortuga. The suits eventually descend into view and hover over the Kratt brothers, who then jump up and into their suits. Using Creature Powers, the Kratt brothers help their teammates head back to Varmitech Village and confront the villains to prove to them that they have not achieved total victory over the Wild Kratts after all, much to Zach's surprise.
Having finally had just about enough of their villainous enemies stopping them, to save their animal friends again, Chris, using Snowy Owl Power, unfreezes animals while Martin, using Puffin Power, picks them up in his beak. After the Kratt brothers undecorate the tree, Zach activates the tree's robot mode to attack the Kratt brothers. To take down the tree, Aviva wraps robotic arms around its legs. While Martin makes the tree chase him, his teammates play a tug of war with it, causing it to trip and crash down. Martin then crash lands and deactivates on contact with the ground, although the animals he carried in his beak came out unharmed. The villains decide to make one final stand by blocking the Wild Kratts from reaching them. However, by calling their names, the Wild Kratts have their baby animal friends create a stampede and trample them. With their plan foiled at last, the villains finally admit defeat and retreat in their planes. In the end, the Wild Kratts return to celebrating their Christmas party, but this time in the Tortuga with their baby animal friends and they return them back to their homes after the party. They also get to return to opening presents: Koki opens hers to reveal a high-tech radar chair, Jimmy opens his to reveal a hovering remote control holder that follows him, Chris opens his huge present to reveal a coupon for a fully-repaired and better-than-ever Time Trampoline, and Aviva's teammates give her a trophy for "World's Greatest Scientist". They then exclaim, "Merry Creature Christmas!"
The episode transitions into the concluding live action segment. The Kratt brothers continue their walk around the Zoo Sauvage de St-Félicien. They find Christmas creatures such as snowshoe hares, musk oxen, elk, Siberian tigers, snowy owls, polar bears, lynx, red cardinals, bison, otters, and chickadees. Afterward, they conclude the episode by saying "Keep on creature adventuring; we'll see you on the creature trail!"
Characters[]
- Chris Kratt
- Martin Kratt
- Aviva Corcovado
- Koki
- Jimmy Z
- Zach Varmitech
- Zachbots
- Donita Donata
- Dabio
- Mannequin Robots
- Gaston Gourmand
- Yi
- Patricia
- Gavin
- Ronan
Animals[]
Animation[]
Note: Featured animals are in bold.
- Snowy Owl: Frosty, Scoop
- Gray Wolf: Little Howler
- Musk Ox: Kid Musky
- Giant Panda: Stuffo
- Red Panda: Lost and Found
- Golden Snub-nosed Monkey: Blue Goggle
- African Bush Elephant: Thornsley
- Hippopotamus: Hipster
- Black Rhinoceros: Nubs
- Cheetah: Spot Swat
- Aardvark: Slurpy
- Grant's Zebra: Maze
- Golden Bamboo Lemur: Gold Puff
- Osprey: Fluffy Flier (called Fluff)
- Wild Turkey: Lightning
- Florida Panther: Swat, Crunch
- American Bison: Muncher
- North American Beaver: Buddy, Twig
- Groundhog: Dandelion
- North American River Otter: Slider
- Platypus: Platty, Platter
- Koala: Koala Balloon
- Red Kangaroo: Hopster
- Proboscis Monkey: Nosey
- Tasmanian Devil: T-Bone
- Ring-tailed Lemur: Clingon
- Aye-aye: Goblin
- Black-footed Ferret: Bandito
- Geoffroy's Spider Monkey: Grabsy
- Jaguar: Shadow
- American Black Bear: Bellyful
- Arctic Wolf: Baby Tooth
- Parson's Chameleon: Target
- Chinese Pangolin: Artichoke
- Purple Martin: Martin Jr.
- Spirit Bear: Spirit Jr.
- Nile Crocodile: Crunchina, Snapifer, Frederica
- Lion: Chris, Martin
- Lowland Streaked Tenrec: Pokey
- Virginia Opossum: Jillybean
- Caracal: Pounce More
- Bornean Orangutan
- Diademed Sifaka
- Draco Lizard: Zippy
- Warthog
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Orca: Swirly
- Narwhal: Two Tusker
- American Red Squirrel
- Caribou
- American Pine Marten (called pine marten)
- Blue Jay
- Moose
- Atlantic Puffin
- Nubian Giraffe
Computer Images[]
Live Action[]
Note: Live action animals are linked to Wikipedia.
- White-tailed deer
- Mule deer (called white-tailed deer)
- Snowshoe hare
- Elk
- Siberian tiger
- Canada lynx (called lynx)
- Northern cardinal (called red cardinal)
- Black-capped chickadee (called chickadee)
Errors[]
- After Dabio confiscated the Kratt brothers' creature power vests and gloves, there is a scene that the Kratt brothers still wore creature power vests while they were trapped.
Trivia[]
- This is the second time Koki activates a Creature Power, the first being "The Amazing Creature Race", which is mentioned by Jimmy in the episode.
- Aviva's Creature Power Suit in the episode is redesigned since its first appearance in the Season 2 episode, "Groundhog Wakeup Call".
- Poby is shown in a cameo appearance in a photo, now in the show's traditional animation style.
- This episode aired the day before Thanksgiving in 2015.
- This is Zach's fourth attempt to kill the Kratt brothers and his first attempt to kill the entire crew.
- This is also the first and so far only time Donita, Dabio, and Gourmand (since they were teaming up with Zach) attempt to kill any of the Wild Kratts members.
- When Zach is gloating over capturing the team, he is seen holding the three Creature Power Discs that Martin uses to help the gang return to the mall for the final battle.
- It is hinted that the villains despise Christmas just as much as they hate the Wild Kratts.
- This is the second one-hour special of the series followed by "Back in Creature Time".
- This special appears to have been aired out of order: Donita's mannequins, as well as several baby animals and Creature Powers were first shown in this episode, though they wouldn't make their canonical debut until future episodes of the fourth season. Additionally, the presence of Bellyful and Spirit Jr. imply that this episode postdates the events of "Spirit Bear," however, Paisley Paver and Rex, villains introduced in that episode, are not seen, mentioned, or referenced in this episode, despite Chris stating that the holiday scheme includes all of the villains.
- Two of the white-tailed deer clips in the live action segment showed mule deer instead.
- One of the mule deer clips was previously shown in "Happy Turkey Day", where they were also incorrectly referred to as as white-tailed deer.
- The episode features narration typical to many other Christmas specials. The narrator in question is Aviva Corcovado, though only from a third-person view.
- This is the first episode to have a narrator.
- This is the first one hour special to have a different background and logo as opposed to regular length episodes; The opening sequence for this episode features a Christmas-themed logo.
Key Facts and Creature Moments[]
- A pine marten chasing a squirrel.
- Two narwhals fighting with their tusks.