My Big Big Friend

S02:E01 - Harold the Hamster - Caterpillar Dance

After caring for the class pet over the Christmas holidays, Yuri wants to keep him and so avoids bringing him back to school by taking a trip into a fantasy jungle. While there, Yuri and Golias accidentally eat a monkey trio’s private banana stash, forcing Yuri to climb a tall tree to replace them, while Golias is left to be cared for by the monkeys. But while Yuri is gone, the monkeys become very attached to Golias and don’t want to let him go! While pleading to get his BBF back, Yuri realizes that it wouldn’t be fair of him to keep Harold the Hamster – the entire class would miss him terribly! --- The gang asks a new boy at school if he’d like to play Caterpillars with them, and when the boy doesn’t respond, the kids trek off with some annoyance to play the game on their own. In a large park-setting fantasy, the kids encounter a group of caterpillars who only speak “squeak” and so must come up with a different way to communicate with them; in the process, they realize that perhaps the new boy in their class speaks a different language, too. As it turns out, they’re right – the boy only speaks Portuguese, but he does understand their miming gestures and they figure out a way to all play together.