- This page is about the episode. For the animal character, see Last Largest Lobster.
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"The Last Largest Lobster" is the 8th episode of Season 4 of the PBS Kids show Wild Kratts. It is the 100th episode of the series overall. It premiered on July 29, 2015.
In the episode, a seagull snatches one of Martin's Creature Power Discs and drops it into the sea. While trying to retrieve the disc, the Kratt brothers find the so-called "Last Largest Lobster" and ask Aviva to make Lobster Powers so they can pursue it. Meanwhile, Gourmand is also searching for the Last Largest Lobster.
Plot[]
The episode begins with a live action segment. The Kratt brothers catch lobsters on a lobster boat just off the New England coast. Afterwards, they ask their "What if?" question, and the show transitions into the animated segment.
The Wild Kratts eat cheese and crackers on the rocky intertidal coastline while a flock of seagulls circle and annoy them. While defending seagulls in front of Aviva and Koki, Martin accidentally spreads cheese on one of his Creature Power Discs that he mistakes for a cracker. He notices his blunder before he could take a bite out of the disc, but then a seagull dives down snatches the disc. The Kratt brothers run after the seagull, which drops the disc into the sea. The Kratt brothers put on their wetsuits and dive down into the sea to retrieve the disc.
Meanwhile Gourmand who has a craving for seafood, crashes his camper past the docks and transforms it into a boat. He then begins searching for the so-called "Last Largest Lobster". This lobster is supposed to be about twice the size of a typical lobster and the evil chef is determined to sniff out the legendary crustacean.
The Kratt brothers find the disc in a lobster trap. Unable to reach the disc and unable to lift the trap, they miniaturize and swim into the trap to retrieve the disc. Outside, they find the Last Largest Lobster. Setting retrieving the disc aside, the Kratt brothers return to normal size and ask Aviva for Lobster Powers so they can pursue the Last Largest Lobster. After Aviva finishes a pair of discs and Jimmy teleports them, the Kratt brothers activate their Creature Power Suits. Chris successfully activates as an adult lobster, but Martin activates as a microscopic lobster larva in stage I.
Gourmand finds Chris after mistaking him for the Last Largest Lobster. He approaches Chris and asks why he came to bother and frustrate him. However, when he realizes that Chris saw the Last Largest Lobster, he challenges Chris to a game of "finders, keepers". They follow each other to a shipwreck, where they find the Last Largest Lobster. Chris and Gourmand then battle each other. While fighting Gourmand, Chris drops the Miniaturizer. The Last Largest Lobster lands on the Miniaturizer and dramatically expands in size until it rises above water. Gourmand sees the enormous lobster and goes berserk with "lobster mania". He heads toward the lobster and while tying, seasoning, and trying to crack it open, he gets himself tangled in a mess of rope. To save Gourmand, Chris heads out to the lobster and cuts the rope tangling Gourmand, who is sent back to his boat, which transforms back into a camper. Gourmand sobs uncontrollably because he failed to catch the lobster as he drives away with seagulls following him. Chris then resets and points the Minaturizer at the Last Largest Lobster to shrink him down to normal size.
Chris returns to shore with all his teammates back at his side, all except for Martin. However, it turns out that Martin was riding on Chris while he was battling Gourmand. Martin then transforms into an adult lobster. While fishing, Jimmy catches the lobster trap containing the sunken disc, which turns out to be a blank. The Kratt brothers then ask Aviva to use it to program Seagull Power, though this soon fades out as the gulls start pecking at them, amusing the others.
The episode transitions into the concluding live action segment. The Kratt brothers catch and release an egg-bearing female lobster, observe lobster larvae in a lab, and catch more lobsters with kids. Afterwards, 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
- Gaston Gourmand
- Ronan
- Evan
- Sani
- Gavin
- Eden
- Unnamed Boy
Animals[]
Animation[]
Note: Featured animals are in bold.
- American Lobster: Last Largest Lobster, Red Crush
- Laughing Gull (called seagull)
- Atlantic Cod
- Gulf Menhaden
- Water Flea (called zooplankton)
- European Pilchard
- Great White Shark
- Marine Hermit Crab
- Starfish
Mentioned[]
Note: Mentioned animals are linked to Wikipedia.
Trivia[]
- This episode originally aired as the Season 4 premiere, but it serves as the 100th episode Wild Kratts to be produced.
- "The Last Largest Lobster" aired alongside its sequel Stars of the Tides.
- "The Last Largest Lobster" marks the third time that Chris activates as an adult animal while Martin activates as a juvenile animal; only this time Martin is microscopic and can not be seen or heard.
- As of this episode, Gavin has a deeper voice. This is likely due to Gavin Kratt hitting puberty during Season 4's release.
- This is the first and only episode so far, where Gourmand calls one of the Wild Kratts members by their actual name, being Chris in this case.
- This is the third episode where Gourmand mistakes a Kratt brother for an animal he wants to capture.
- Upon mistaking Chris for the Last Largest Lobster, Gourmand gets angry and claims that he's masquerading as a lobster to frustrate him. This is similar to a scene from the episode "Lemur Legs", where Martin claims that Gourmand was pretending to be the last Megaladapis.
- Silhouettes of cleaner fish can be seen swimming in the background throughout the episode.
- This is the only episode Gourmand cries in.
Key Facts and Creature Moments[]
- Big lobsters are cannibals that will eat smaller lobsters.
- Lobsters have one big claw for crushing and one smaller claw for pinching and cutting.
- Two lobsters fighting for dominance.
- Lobsters have powerful tails that can flick backwards to help them swim away backwards to evade predators.
- Only 1 in 10,000 lobster larvae survive to adulthood.
- Young lobsters hide in rock crevices to avoid predators.
- The lobster life cycle in action.