Jim Henson's Animal Show with Stinky and Jake (1994) Season 3
The show was hosted by Jake, a jovial polar bear, and Stinky, his skunk friend. Other main characters included Armstrong the Chicken Hawk, Ollie the Tapir, Bunnie Bear, Tizzy the Bee, Yves St. La Roache, Rhonda Rat, and Dullard the Aardvark. Structured as a talk show, the hosts interviewed two guest animals in each episode. The animals talked about themselves and showed clips of their real-life counterparts.
The Siberian Tiger and the Reindeer 01 Stinky thinks that our arctic guests might know Santa Clause. Later, the reindeer tells Stinky if he wishes, he'll get a present.
02 Stinky decides to order a shell from Shelly's shells because of our shelled guests.
03 Stinky turns off the lights because of our nocturnal guests, but the darkness later reminds Jake of the dark nights of winter as he falls into a winter hibernation.
The Indian Elephant and the Human 04 Stinky and Jake interview the Indian Elephant which is one of the largest animals in the world. After that, they learn a lot from a human named Dave like about automobiles, slippers, hoses, and how humans watch their show.
The Pelican and the Flamingo 05 Stinky wants to eat like a skunk than a pig, so he gets advice from our beaked guests.
The Warthog and the Baboon 06 Stinky wants to go to Smellyworld instead of visiting the brushland of Africa where our featured guests are from.
07 Stinky plans a surprise for Stanley the Mouse after the show. Unfortunately, he doesn't like surprises. What's worse is that Stinky's invited guests Mr. Owl, Mrs. Snake, and Mrs. Fox want to eat him.
The Monitor Lizard and the Crocodile 08 After Jake gets hit by a sand bag from a Sand Bag Tree, Stinky decides he needs protection like our tough-skinned guests.
The Albatross and the Hummingbird 09 Stinky wants to fly like our bird guests, but his wings are too big and he puts them on Jake.
10 Stinky and Jake interview Andrew the Humpback Whale in a leaky tank that gets worse when it start to flood everywhere.
The Spider Monkey and the Lemur 11 Stinky tries to enter Jake into a tree-swinging competition since our featured guests move around in trees.
The Honeybee and the Honeypossum 12 Armstrong is allergic to flowers since our featured guest can survive from the nector. Things get worse when Stinky and Jake learn that if they don't win the award for Best Shows hosted by animals (especially Skunks and Polar Bears), our featured judges (a crocodile, cape buffalo, and vulture) will eat them.
13 Our insect guest don't get along when each one talks about themselves.
The Coyote and the Red Fox 14 Stinky plans to throws a pest party at Jake's den with our pesty guests as partygoers.
The Grasshopper Mouse and the Stoat 15 Stinky thinks our vicious guests aren't vicious until he learns from them and starts acting vicious himself.
16 Stinky tries to stump Larry the Fish of which fish isn't real.
17 Stinky tries to make our mountainous guests feel at home.
18 Stinky and Jake invite Sam the Eagle to talk about his kind. Unfortunately, he didn't like how eagles live and leaves resulting in Armstrong taking over. Armstrong thinks eagles upstage chickenhawks and doesn't do the song. Sam returns because he doesn't have any money to get his car out of the parking garage and Stinky and Jake handle it if he does a song. During the song, Armstrong appears and tells him that his kind upstaged him and Sam mentions how good chickenhawks are which makes Armstrong happy.
The Jaguar and the Tortoise 19 Stinky resigns from the food chain and tries to form a resistance against it and break the food chain. At the same time, our featured guests interview our food chain guests and learn that the food chain can be broken if one animal becomes extinct.
The Spoonbill and the Salmon 20 Stinky wants to go migrating with our migration guests, but there's a problem with Stinky in stuff that they can do that he can't.
The Colobus Monkey and the Flying Squirrel 21 Stinky tries to keep our gliding guests on the ground, but he gets stuck to Quincy the Flying Squirrel via glue.
22 Stinky and Jake learn a lot about snakes from Kiki the Rattlesnake. Stinky thinks that Kiki can swallow Jake. But she didn't swallow him, she swallowed all of Armstrong's Chocky Hawkies (a hawk-shaped chocolate on a popsicle stick).
The Hornbill and the Woodpecker 23 Armstrong tries to get the perfect beak to match our beaked guests, but none of the fake beaks work.
The Giant Otter and the Mink 24 Bunnie wants female friends and she befriends Stinky and Jake's female aquatic guests Sandy the Giant Otter and Melody the Mink and invites the two to a sleepover.
The Mongoose and the Secretary Bird 25 Ernie the Mongoose, one of our snake-eating guests, becomes a nusiance to Stinky and Jake when he doesn't leave after his interview. Ernie interviews Kyle the Secretary bird and they get into a fight over who is better...a fight Stinky and Jake break up. It's revealed that his wife and kids are visiting his mom and needed someplace to stay.
26 In another family-themed episode, Stinky has Bunnie, Armstrong, Eve, Rhonda, and Dunnard together after the ""We are one big happy family"" song performed by Malcolm the Lion and the Animals.
1/4/1997
