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Explorer

Simon

Outdoor engineer.

Simon can build a working pulley out of three sticks and a vine while pulling the silliest face you’ve ever seen. Hand him a broken thing; he’ll hand it back fixed, usually upside down.

🎂 Birthday: 10 June

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14 episodes

• The Explorers
  04

  Flat

  The Explorers take their rubber dinghies to the lake. Simon sees a thorn on the path ahead and throws it away over his shoulder, accidentally bursting a tyre on the Beatmobile. He panics and tries to get rid of the thorn, but no matter how carefully he tries to throw it away, it keeps bouncing back and bursting more and more tyres. Simon sees a burst tyre flying around as it deflates, and has an idea. He bursts the dinghies of the other Explorers, and they fly away like jet skis as they deflate. But when Simon punctures his own dinghy, he sinks immediately.

• The Explorers
  05

  Campsite Crazy

  Simon's attempts to set up his tent get increasingly disastrous. First he forgets to put in the poles, and then he forgets to hammer in the guide-ropes and gets blown away in the wind. He ends up holding on for dear life as his tent becomes a giant kite. When he falls out of the sky, his tent gets caught between two trees and becomes a perfectly good hammock. He settles down for a good night's sleep... but one of the trees is actually Tallbert's neck, and when he runs away, Simon gets catapulted into the distance.

• The Explorers
  06

  Snow Trouble

  The Explorers are trying to get a photo of a polar bear, who hides by pretending to be a snow pile. Simon climbs a tree to search for the bear, and keeps on accidentally making more piles of snow fall down onto the others. The other Explorers get covered by the snow piles, and are surprised when the other snow pile (polar bear) keeps moving around by itself. When they realise that the snow pile is a bear, they all hide up the tree with Simon.

• The Explorers
  07

  Lost

  The Explorers are lost in a forest, and don't know where the Beatmobile is. They try using a map but end up playing a game of tic-tac-toe, and they try using a compass but it keeps pointing them towards a giant magnet that Simon is carrying. They try walking in random directions but they keep on getting scared by animal noises. In the end they try throwing a message in a bottle. It hits the Beatmobile's hooter, and the Explorers discover that the Beatmobile was really close and the forest was really, really tiny.

• The Explorers
  09

  Up

  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.

• The Explorers
  11

  Line and Sinker

  Simon goes fishing, but for safety reasons Mirabelle puts a cork on the end of his hook. The hook won't sink with the cork on it, so Simon keeps throwing things at the cork to make it go under the water. All the things Simon drops fall down to the bottom of the sea, where they land on an octopus's head. The octopus comes to the surface, and uses Simon's fishing rod to catch all the Explorer's camping gear and pull it into the water. Simon thinks this is a great way to fish, and joins the octopus in his dinghy. The two of them continue reverse-fishing, catching things on the land and pulling them into the sea.

• The Explorers
  14

  Hot Air

  The Explorers go on a hot air balloon ride. Everyone is having a great time except for Simon, who is terrified of heights.The others try to calm him down, but he freaks out even more when Buzby lands on him. As he jumps up and down the ropes of the balloon start to snap. Luckily, they touch down safely on the top of a cliff and all leap out - except for Simon. Without their extra weight the balloon takes off again, taking Simon with it.

• The Explorers
  16

  A Tall Tale

  The Explorers try to measure the height of Tallbert, who panics and runs away. The tape measure gets caught up in his legs, and Simon gets dragged away with it. Tallbert tries to hide by putting his head in a bush. The Explorers find him, and measure him while he's lying down. Because of this, their measurement shows that giraffes are smaller than people.

• The Explorers
  18

  Spine Tingler

  Simon is keeping watch at the campsite at night, but keeps on getting startled by strange sounds and unexpected spikes. Humph has been attracted by the warmth of the fire, and keeps on accidentally spiking Simon. Neither of them knows that the other one is there, so they both get increasingly freaked out.

• The Explorers
  21

  Teddy

  The Explorers are exploring in the arctic. They fall into a cave, and have to sneak past a sleeping polar bear. Simon sings lullabies to keep the bear asleep, and when the bear grabs Dexter and hugs him like a teddy, Simon has to sing more energetic songs to wake the bear up a little. The bear lets Dexter go, and Simon sings lullabies again, putting all the other Explorers to sleep in the cave.

• The Explorers
  24

  Tentacular

  Simon is cooking supper for the Explorers. An octopus gets the cooking pot stuck on his head, and Simon mistakes it for an alien. He tells the others, who don't believe him, so Simon wrestles with the octopus, and accidentally gets the pot stuck on his own head. The other Explorers come around the corner and see Simon with the pot on his head and the octopus on top. They think that it's all one big alien, and run off screaming.

• The Explorers
  26

  Road Block

  The Explorers are driving along a mountain road and find Rocky asleep and blocking their path. They try to roll him off the road with bamboo poles, but accidentally catapult Dexter into the sky instead. They try to make a bamboo ramp, but the bamboo poles get flipped into the air and almost hit Simon. In the end they manage to pole-vault the vehicle over the sleeping Rocky. They celebrate by cheering and honking the horn. Rocky wakes up and scratches on a rock pillar, making it collapse around the Explorers and trapping them again.

• Season 8
  03

  Compass

  The animals find it ridiculously easy to hide from the explorers, until Simon the explorer invents a mega-compass that can find any object that the explorers set their dial to. It’s suddenly a lot harder for Munki, Trunk and Tallbert to avoid being seen, until Munki makes a fake replacement compass that leads the explorers wildly astray.

• Season 8
  04

  Backpack

  Trunk sees Simon going for a walk carrying Pupster in his backpack. She sneaks behind Simon, wanting Pupster to play with her. But when Munki tries to put Pupster back into the backpack, he accidentally gets picked up and shoved into it instead. Simon doesn't know he's carrying Munki instead of Pupster, and Trunk has to do whatever she can to rescue her friend before Simon finds out.

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