For the location see Fish museum.
A Delicate Balance ← Preceded by - The Fish Museum - Followed by → Peep's Night Out |
The Fish Museum is the seventeenth episode of the first season along with Peep's Night Out which comes right after it. It first aired in May 4, 2004 and is written by Joe Fallon with the storyboard by Gabriela Godoy.
Title card[]
The title card shows Quack showing the fish the balloon.
Condensed summary[]
Fish Jr. wants to make a fish museum at the bottom of Quack's pond with Quack collecting stuff from above.
Expanded summary[]
Ever since Quack met the fish living in his pond they became good neighbors. One day, Quack told the fish about everything on land, Fish Jr. liked them and wanted to go on land and see the wonderful things. But the orange fish told her she could not because fish can't live outside the water. He and the other fish wanted to go on land too but they can't. Fish Jr. felt sad she could not go on land and Quack felt sorry for her. Just then Fish Jr. had an idea she asked Quack if he could put things in the pond for her and the fish to see, and Quack agreed. (It's the least a duck can do.)
He left his pond and grabbed a branch. He asked Peep and Chirp if it was good for the fish, and Peep said yes. Quack threw the branch into the pond and it sank to the bottom. He collected other things, like an apple and a sneaker. He going to take Nellie's bowl but he decided not to (possibly remembering Nellie getting mad at him and banishing him from her yard the last time he was in her bowl in Shadow Play). Then he dropped down everything he collected (except the apple which floated) into his pond. Later on, Quack got a sponge. The sponge floated at first but filled with water and sank. Fish Jr. decided to keep all the things and start a museum called "The Fish Museum of Things From up There."
Quack told her if it was a museum it has to have an acorn. He jumped out of the pond and grabbed an acorn and pulled it underwater. But while he and Fish Jr. were looking for a place to put it, it floated towards the surface but Fish Jr. grabbed it and put it in a shell to prevent it from floating. Later, Quack decided to give Peep a sneak peek of the museum before it opens to the public. Peep ducked his head underwater and met Fish Jr. and saw the museum. At Fish Jr. thought Peep was for the museum, and grabbed his beak, before Quack told her he wasn't.
Soon, the Fish Museum was finished and ready to open tomorrow. Quack told Fish Jr. the museum was missing one more thing: Balloons! Every grand opening has them. Quack takes an orange balloon from a nearby birthday party in a backyard and brought it back to the pond. It could not sink so Quack pulled it underwater and Fish Jr. loved it. Quack tried to attach it to the start of the museum but it floated towards the surface. Fish Jr. tried to get it but it launched her out of the pond and into the sky were she saw the world outside the pond. She landed in the pond and told Quack she saw it. Quack was unable to attach the balloon to the start of the museum, so he held it.
The next day, the museum opened to the public. And the fish were amazed by all the exhibits. But Quack and the balloon was the most popular exhibit. The fish took turns being launched out of the pond with the balloon to see the world outside the pond and land back in the water. Peep and Chirp saw this, but Chirp decided to let it remain a mystery. The episode ends with another fish being launched out and landing back down, before the balloon is pulled underwater again.
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Trivia[]
- This episode marks the first appearance of the Fish Museum.
- Nellie and Newton made sleeping cameos in this episode.
- Peep had only one line in this episode.
- This is the least amount of lines he has had in an episode, having never been absent from any.
- Additionally, this does not count the non-speaking appearances he had in the episode.
- Oddly, some of the objects Quack brought to the museum were too heavy (bowling ball, cactus, and unicycle). It's possible that he might have gotten help from some bigger animals like the beavers.
- This marks the first time Peep goes underwater.
- Quack is seen trying to take Nellie's bowl, but decides not to. This might be a reference to Shadow Play, since he got banished from Nellie's Yard for splashing in her water bowl.
- The games Quack's Apples and Fish Swish are adapted from this episode.
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