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Recap / Wonder Pets! S1 E9 "Save the Swan!" / "Save the Puppy!"

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Original air date: 3/13/2006 (produced in 2005)

Save the Swan!

The Wonder Pets travel to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake to help a young swan who is hiding in a bucket because he's afraid to dance.

Save the Swan! contains examples of:

  • Swans A-Swimming: The swan whose head was stuck in a bucket. Except not really—he put the bucket on his head on purpose because he was embarrassed over the fact that he thought he couldn't dance as well as the other swans. After the team shows him that his style of dancing is just as good as any other swan's, he opts to use the bucket as a makeshift stage instead.


Save the Puppy!

The Wonder Pets travel to a suburban home on Long Island where a puppy who needs to go out to urinate but is having trouble using his doggy door.

Save the Puppy! contains examples of:

  • Artistic License – Biology: Ducks and turtles don't urinate. At least, not the way the show portrays they do. However, they could've been urinating the way they do in reality, as we never actually see them pee, and the terminology they were using was to be simplified for the young audience.
  • Incoming Ham: Linny in this episode: "It's a puppy, he has to pee-pee, but he CAAAAAAN'T, 'cause he's stuck in the house!"
  • Potty Dance: Downplayed in where Linny is briefly seen sidestepping when she says, "We've all gotta go".
  • Potty Emergency: The episode has a puppy locked in the house alone, while he has to go outside, so the Wonder Pets have to find a way out before the dog bursts his kidneys. Soon even the Wonder Pets find themselves in the same situation as the pup. In the end, they find a way outside and take a piss in great relief.
  • Rewatch Bonus: Eagle-eyed viewers will notice the doggy door and its accompanying hinge in the door panel long before the team realizes it.
  • Toilet Humor: This episode focuses on a dog who needs to be let out so he can pee.
  • Toilet Training Plot: This episode is a pet variant of this; a puppy, with a Potty Emergency, is described as "ready to go outside like a big dog".

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