Rita
The loving adventurer.
Rita can run faster than you, cook better than you, and train a rhino to sit. Then she’ll trip over her own boots and laugh about it for ten minutes.
6 episodes
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The Explorers
02Along For The Ride
Rita gets carried away with her love of nature. She starts hugging trees, and one of them turns out to be Trunk's leg! Trunk hears her giggling, but she can't work out where the voice is coming from. She panics and runs, and Rita laughs and holds on the whole way. The charging Trunk knocks over the other Explorers, and eventually manages to shake Rita off. But before Trunk can celebrate, she realises that the other Explorers are hugging her, too!
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The Explorers
09Up
The Explorers are driving along when the Beatmobile slows down. This is because they're trying to drive up a vertical cliff! The Beatmobile drops back down, but the Explorers want to get up to the top. Simon climbs the cliff and attaches the Beatmobile's winch to a big round boulder. The winch lifts them up to the top, but the boulder starts rolling, and it falls off the cliff just as they reach the top. The Beatmobile ends up hanging dangerously. It looks like it's going to fall until Buzby comes and lands on Rita's hat, tipping the balance and making the Beatmobile tilt back to safety. Mirabelle sees Buzby and shoos him away. Without Buzby's weight, the Beatmobile tips and falls off the cliff, and all the Explorers fall with it. Luckily it lands the right way up, and they all land safely in its seats. But the boulder lands on the front of the Beatmobile, flipping it and launching them all up to the top of the cliff again. Even more luckily, they all land safely... until Buzby lands on Rita's hat again, making the edge of the cliff crumble, and they all fall down again.
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The Explorers
10Shell Game
Rita and Mirabelle are collecting and labelling shells on the beach. Rita finds a shell with a hermit crab inside, and wants to keep it, but Mirabelle needs it for the collection. They fight over it, and Mirabelle eventually gets it from Rita. But when she finally sees hermit crab, she realises that she can't keep it. She puts it back into the sea, along with all the other shells she has collected.
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Season 8
07Birthday Blunder
The humans set up a surprise birthday picnic for Rita the explorer, and while the animals are investigating it they accidentally smash the cake and lose all the presents, which float away after Munki ties balloons to them. Tallbert and Ribbert need to quickly make a replacement cake using mud and rocks, while Munki ties balloons to Trunk and uses her to float up after the presents.
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Season 8
10Good Dog
Pupster is causing chaos in the jungle: digging holes and chewing Munki's bananas. Munki and Trunk see that Rita is able to get Pupster to behave and even perform tricks, and Trunk is determined to get Pupster to obey her own commands. Pupster, however, has his own plans.
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Season 8
12Radio Tallbert
Rita is listening to her radio in Munki’s clearing. While she’s briefly distracted, Tallbert comes out and dances to the music. He trips over the radio, sending it flying up in the air and accidentally swallowing it. It ends up stuck halfway down his long neck, and Munki has to try to get it out while also keeping his suddenly-very-noisy friend hidden from the explorer.