Recap / Octonauts Musical Octonauts And The Great Barrier Reef

The Octonauts Race Against Time to stop a swarm of Crown-of-Thorns starfish from reaching the Great Barrier reef and a developing coral polyp.

The episode has the following tropes:

• Artistic License – Biology: Crown-of-thorns starfish spines are dangerous to both humans and marine animals.
• Ass Kicking Pose: Not exactly ass-kicking but the Octonauts do pose to defend the reef.
• Avengers Assemble: The Octonauts and the reef creatures ban together to defend the reef from the crown-of-thorns starfish.
• Badass Boast: The chorus to "A Thousand Pies" is this.
  For the reef
  For the sea
  We are standing side by side
  To protect
  To resist
  When the hungry swarm arrives
  By our wits
  By our hearts
  By our teamwork
  And a thousand pies
• Big Damn Heroes: When the starfish army comes closer to the reef, Dashi, Shellington and Tweak came Justin Time, with the thousand pirate pies.
• Call-Back:
  • Kwazii cooking Pirate Pie with the Vegimals is similar to cooking Pirate Stew in the episode "The Leafy Sea Dragons".
  • Peso gets injured for the second time, first one was in "The Yellow-bellied Sea Snakes".
    • To make it even more of a callback, the injured flipper is the same one as the one he broke in "The Yellow-bellied Sea Snakes"
• Calling Your Attacks: Barnacles, Inkling, Kwazii and Peso do this when defending the reef.
• Chekhov's Gun: Kwazii's pirate pie is the one thing needed to keep the starfish swarm away from the reef, because of the ingredient in the pie, coral slime.
• Creepy Jazz Music:
  • Mr. Mound Coral's song "Trouble on the Reef".
  • Kwazii's second song "Sea Monster from the Briny Blue".
• Declaration of Protection: The chorus of "A Thousand Pie". Doubles as a Badass Boast.
• Determinator: Corey's song "Little Bit" defines determinator.
  But I can take it, make it
  If I never quit
  I hope a Little Bit can find a way to fit
• Farming Your Friend: In a well-meaning example, the Octonauts fill pies with slime that Corey the coral polyp and the Old Mound Reef excrete so that they can feed crown-of-thorns starfish.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Peso lets himself get injured to save Corey and Mr. Mound Coral from a crown-of-thorns starfish.
• Here We Go Again!: Kwazii says this when the rest of the starfish army comes closer.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: Turns out the closet in Kwazii's room is a secret room full of pirate treasure and recipes.
• "I Am Becoming" Song: The song "Forming the Coral Reef", when Peso helps Corey become coral.
• "I Am" Song: Corey's song "Little Bit".
• Major Injury Underreaction: Like in "The Yellow-Bellied Sea Snakes", Peso he doesn't react that badly when he got pricked by one of the crown-of-thorns starfish.
• Music for Courage: The song "A Thousand Pies".
• Musicalis Interruptus: "Little Bit" when Corey accidentally collides with the Gup-W.
• Musical Episode: This special contains 8 songs sung by the Octonauts and the reef creatures. "Little Bit", "Forming the Coral Reef" and "Tasty Reef" was even sung twice making for 11 musical numbers overall.
• Oh, Crap!: When Barnacles, Kwazii and Peso see the starfish swarm for the first time
  Barnacles: Wow. That's more spikey arms than we can count...
• Pun: Peso says "They shall snot pass" which is a pun on "They shall not pass".
• Small Role, Big Impact: Even though the reef creatures are seen as background characters, they help the Octonauts defend the reef.
• The Song Before the Storm: Or in this case song before the swarm, "A Thousand Pies".
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: The crown-of-thorns starfish go after the pirate pies to prevent them from eating the coral.
• Villain Song: Or in this case, an antagonist song sung by the Crown-of-Starfish song "Tasty Reef".
• Wham Shot: Kwazii has a secret room within his room.
• Win-Win Ending: The crown-of-thorn starfish gets something to eat (other than the coral), the reef is safe, and Corey has found his place in the reef.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Corey went from a small coral polyp to a piece of standing coral.
• You Shall Not Pass!: This doubles as a pun when Peso says this.
  Peso: They shall snot pass!

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