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"Tazzy Chris" is the 14th episode of Season 1 of the PBS Kids show Wild Kratts. It is the 14th episode of the series overall. It premiered on January 31, 2011.

In this episode, the Kratt brothers are in Tasmania, tagging Tasmanian devils so they can track them and potentially save them from extinction. After Zach Varmitech finds out, he heads to Tasmania to collect devils to use in his new security robots so he can scare away children.

Plot[]

The episode begins with a live-action segment. Chris plays a trick on Martin by hiding a sugar glider in a log cavity. After Martin finds out, they conclude that one can not judge an animal without getting to know it. Afterward, they ask their "What if?" question, and the show transitions into the cartoon segment.

The Kratt brothers are in Tasmania, tagging Tasmanian devils so they can track them and potentially save them from extinction. Meanwhile, at Zach Varmitech's house, Zach is wondering if his newest machine, a security robot, is ready or not. Suddenly, a baseball from two kids ends up in his popcorn. Furious, Zach scares the kids away. While scaring the kids away, Zach has a flashback to when he and the Kratt brothers were kids. Then a newspaper hits his head – the front article indicating the Wild Kratts are tagging Tasmanian devils. Thinking that the devils might freak out "pesky kids", he flies to Tasmania in his jet.

Back at the Kratt brothers, Martin finds a young Tasmanian devil and names it T-bone. Chris continues tagging. Later, while continuing to place tags on devil ears using a small, remote-controlled flying robot, a curious devil takes a big bite out of the activation button on Chris's Creature Power Suit, causing him to revert between a Tasmanian devil and a human without him even realizing what's happening to him at all. After failing to tag a devil, the Kratt brothers fight over the remote. Unbeknownst to them, one of Zach's Zachbots grabs the dropped magnetic tag. With this tag, Zach knows the locations of all of the tagged devils. He then orders his Zachbots to collect as many of them as they can. Koki, who is supposed to keep track of the tagged devils, refuses to because she thinks scavengers like devils are gross. Chris offers T-Bone a bone, but realizes that he is gone as in off the radar. Martin calls Koki and she gets back to work, however, she finds out that ten T-Devils are quickly moving west together and the tracking lights on the radar screen are flickering out, indicating that someone took the T-Devils. The Kratt brothers soon find out that Zach is behind this. Martin calls Koki and Koki apologizes to Martin, because rotten meat grosses her out, so she was careless about her work on keeping track of the T-devils, and she didn't notice that they were starting to disappear. Koki also admits that Zach is getting away with the T-Devils because of her. When Martin and Chris go back to the Tortuga, Martin tells Aviva to deactivate Chris because Chris has been driving Martin nuts, Martin had to do all the tagging, and Chris wouldn't stop drooling on Martin. When Aviva tries to deactivate Chris, he is distracting her and he tells her not to deactivate him and he tells her what it feels like to be a Tasmanian Devil. Martin and Chris tell Jimmy to fly faster so that they can get the T-Devils that Zach captured before they become endangered or potentially extinct.

After returning home, Zach sends his security robots, now dubbed T. Devil 2000s, to chase away the same two kids that annoyed him before, when the Kratt brothers drop down form their Tortuga. They convince the kids that Tasmanian devils are nothing to be afraid of. Agreeing with them, the kids throw decayed food in front of the T. devil 2000s. The devils inside break through the red barriers keeping them contained, and begin eating the food. Zach freaks out and retreats into his house. Also, when Chris is trying to eat the rotten food, Aviva deactivates Chris's Suit. In the end, the Wild Kratts bring the devils back to Tasmania.

The show transitions into the ending live-action segment. The Kratt brothers perform falconry with another scavenger: the turkey vulture of North America. They explain that the turkey vulture's huge wings and sharp eyesight help it find it's food from high in the sky. They also comment on the vulture's huge see-through nose; stating that it is one of only 2 vultures to have a great sense of smell and that it can smell carcasses from a mile away. The turkey vulture flies over to a large carcass, then the brothers explain that the vulture's beak can strip carcasses to the bone and that it has a bald head so there are no dirty feathers when the stick their heads into the meat. They also added that vultures also appear in Africa wherever there is a carcass, stealing kills from cheetahs, lions, and even competing against hyenas, who have jaws as strong as Tasmanian devils' that can break open the biggest of bones, leaving nothing to waste when scavengers eat. In addition, they explain that a special African vulture called a lammergeier can eat large bones by carrying them into the sky, dropping them onto rocks, and making them smaller enough to swallow. Afterward, they tell the viewers that even though scavengers and what they eat aren't pretty, they are very important as nature's recyclers, before they conclude the episode by saying "Keep on creature adventuring; we'll see you on the creature trail!"

Characters[]

Animals[]

Animation[]

Note: Featured animals are in bold.

Flashback[]

Live Action[]

Note: Live action animals are linked to Wikipedia.

Trivia[]

  • "Tazzy Chris" is the first episode that involved a Creature Power Suit malfunction. This happened to Chris's suit.
    • Additionally, the Tasmanian Devil suit was the first and only creature suit activated without a disc.
  • This episode reveals a lot of things about Zach. He has been capturing animals, creating Zachbots, and has known the Kratt brothers since he was a kid.

Goofs/Error[]

  • When Martin tells Zach "You are so wrong", his Creature Power Suit is gone.

Key Facts and Creature Moments[]

  • Tasmanian devils are scavengers.
  • Only young Tasmanian devils can climb trees.
  • Tasmanian devils have the strongest jaws of any mammal.
  • A Tasmanian devil has an excellent sense of smell and can pick up the scent of a rotting carcass from half a mile away.
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Season 1

"Mom of a Croc" • "Whale of a Squid" • "Aardvark Town" • "Flight of the Draco" • "Mystery of the Squirmy Wormy" • "Platypus Cafe" • "Polar Bears Don't Dance" • "Build It Beaver" • "Voyage of the Butterflier XT" • "Honey Seekers" • "Bass Class" • "Fireflies" • "Mystery of the Weird Looking Walrus" • "Tazzy Chris" • "Octopus Wildkratticus" • "Walk on the Wetside" • "Elephant in the Room" • "Let the Rhinos Roll!" • "Kickin' It With the Roos" • "The Blue and the Gray" • "Falcon City" • "Koala Balloon" • "Cheetah Racer" • "Kerhonk" • "Mimic" • "Caracal-Minton" • "Zig-Zagged" • "A Huge Orange Problem" • "Seasquatch" • "The Food Chain Game" • "Masked Bandits" • "Flight of the Pollinators" • "The Gecko Effect" • "Little Howler" • "Quillber's Birthday Present" • "A Bat in the Brownies" • "Stuck on Sharks" • "Birds of a Feather" • "Googly Eye: The Night Guru" • "Raptor Round Up"

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