The Moomins – Episode 19

EPISODE 19 – THE JUNGLE

Moominfamily and their friends have a great time in the jungle. The Hemulen is botanising as fast as he can, everyone is eating tropical fruit and Moomin and Snorkmaiden play Tarzan and Jane, building a leaf hut. Suspiciously helpful, Stinky offers to get them some animals too, so it will be more like a real jungle. He is as good as his word, but the animals that he provides are not exactly of the kind they had in mind.

The Moomins – Episode 18

EPISODE 18 – THE WOODEN CRATE

It is hotter than ever before in Moominvalley. The river has run dry and everything is wilting. Going down to swim one day with the other children Little My finds a large wooden crate floating in the water and when they open it they find it full of strange looking tropical seeds. They plant them as they have nothing better to do and next night the rain finally comes, a veritable deluge. The seeds sprout and next day the house is surrounded by a jungle. Bamboo, orchids, fruit trees, but also some much more dangerous plants.

The Moomins – Episode 17

EPISODE 17 – MOOMINPAPPA ELOPES

Bored stiff with calm, sunny weather and stuck in his memoirs, Moominpappa craves adventure. Stinky decides to comply and provides a set of gigantic footsteps, leading up from the sea to Moominhouse. This creates a diversion, but is not enough and Moominpappa decides he and Moominmamma should elope (they never did it before because they had no one to elope from). Stealing off in the middle of the night they leave Moomin to fend for himself, something he doesn’t manage all that well Sniff and Little My help him cook and it is probably a very good thing that his parents haven’t managed to get very far.

The Moomins – Episode 16

EPISODE 16 – CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE MOOMIN KIND

One day a flying saucer land in Moominmamma’s vegetable garden. It is apparently unmanned and she and Moomin savage a strange box-like apparatus which looks rather home-made, but which has many remarkable properties. The Inspector is on the war-path trying to nab extraterrestrials and when the Moomins find one, a runaway child, they have to hide him, quickly deciding that he has probably not come to invade Moominvalley. Their task isn’t made any easier by the fact that the box-like apparatus has now made the Inspector iridescent, this fascinating the child so that he follows the inspector everywhere.

The Moomins – Episode 15

EPISODE 15 – PRINCESS SNORKMAIDEN

During a spell of rainy weather Snorkmaiden has crammed herself with stories about princesses and chivalrous knights. On the first sunny day she and Moomin climb a mountain, where Snorkmaiden sees what she believes is, an Edelweiss. Needless to say it isn’t (no such things in Moominvalley), but they have to climb down to get it. Snorkmaiden slips, rolls down the mountainside and winds up in a faint. When she comes to she has forgotten all, and thinks she is of royal blood.