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    Season 1 

The Undersea Storm

  • Kwazii managing to rescue every sea creature in the reef.
    • Before that, he rescues a young lobster that got pulled away in the current away from his family.
  • Two words: Lobster Towline.
  • Barnacles managing to get Kwazii and the lobsters out of the storm.

The Giant Squid

  • A minor one, but Professor Inkling offering to come along on the mission to find his cousin Irving counts as awesome since he doesn't normally go on missions.

The Great Algae Escape

  • Kwazii and Barnacles re-taking the Octopod.
  • A horde of crustaceans managing to hi-jack the entire Octopod!
  • The Octonauts crew cleaning the algae-infested ocean.

The Walrus Chief

  • Tweak making a walrus chief disguise so that Barnacles, Kwazii and Peso can sneak into the colony.
  • Peso carrying both Kwazii and Barnacles to make their walrus disguise look taller than the walrus they're challenging. Keep in mind, he's smaller than Kwazii and Barnacles.
  • The trio confronting the walrus chief after their cover was blown.

The Flying Fish

  • Tweak upgrades the GUP-B to get it to fly.
  • Kwazii managing to get the GUP-B to fly. The icing on top? It flies on the first try!
    • He even manages to wing-walk off the GUP to get the Professor's book!

The Narwhal

  • Barnacles managing to invade an iceberg and then stops the Octopod from hitting the ice wall.
  • Boris' entrance and introduction.
    Kwazii: 'Tis the legendary deep-sea unicorn!
  • Barnacles using the GUP-C to pull the Octopod out of the Arctic sea ice.

The Monster Map

  • The octopus managing to fit in very tight places, via inside a tight rock and in the golden jar.

The Crab and Urchin

The Albino Humpback Whale

  • The whole Octonauts crew carrying a giant albino humpback whale (before sunrise), and then later covering the thing in mushroom coral to treat its sunburn.

The Remipedes

  • The pack of blind remipedes leading the Octonauts out of a cave.
    • They manage to reunite Shellington with Barnacles, Kwazii and Peso.

The Orcas

  • Barnacles unknowingly attracting a whole pod of orcas.
  • Kwazii racing one of the orcas.
  • The fiddler crabs and the Octonauts working together to release the beached orca.

The Blobfish Brothers

  • Barnacles, Kwazii and Peso evacuating the blobfish brothers out of the volcano before the eruption.
    • That and evacuating the other sea creatures are badass.

The Decorator Crab

  • Tweak adds a camouflage feature to the GUP-A
  • Peso managing to bandage an anemone's tentacle without getting stung.
  • Barnacles, Kwazii and Peso chasing down the decorator crab that stole their items.

The Whale Shark

  • Barnacles, Kwazii and Dashi getting out of the whale shark's stomach.
  • Peso unknowingly freeing Barnacles, Kwazii and Dashi out of the whale shark's mouth.
    • Earlier he even gave the huge thing a check-up to see why he's moaning.

The Cookiecutter Sharks

The Jellyfish Bloom

The Speedy Sailfish

  • Tweak makes a remote that can control all five GUPS at once.
    • She even makes them stop automatically at a certain obstacle to prevent them from crashing.
  • Barnacles and Kwazii riding on sailfish to catch the runaway GUPS.
  • After remembering the GUPS' crash-proof feature, Barnacles gets in front of the GUP-B to get it to stop and for Kwazii to get on top of it to remove the box.

The Vampire Squid

  • Peso going after the vampire squid to see why he's hurting. Keep in mind, he was originally afraid of this thing after Kwazii told him a spooky story about it.
  • The vampire squid being brave so that Peso can straighten the spike that poking him.

The Humuhumus

The Giant Spider Crab

  • Kwazii facing his fear of spiders to help the giant spider crab.
  • Three words: tickle, pull, lift.

The Giant Kelp Forest

  • The kelp forest in general looks very impressive.
  • Tweak adding an eject button on the GUP-B so that the driver can escape in an emergency.
  • Even though we don't get to see it, Barnacles, Shellington and Kwazii managed to get the GUP-B out of the forest.

The Hermit Crab

  • Peso being put in charge of the Octopod by Barnacles.
  • Peso and Tweak performing a crab-ectomy to free the hermit carb that's stuck in the shell.

The Hungry Pilotfish

The Beluga Whales

The Snot Sea Cucumber

  • Slippy being able to evade the Octonauts is pretty impressive for a small sea creature.
  • Barnacles flooding the Octopod to find Slippy.

The Giant Whirlpool

  • Tweak adding a booster rocket to the GUP-A. And it goes super fast.
  • Barnacles, Kwazii and Tweak leaning to the side of the GUP-A to avoid getting sucked into the current.
  • Sandy's rescue.
    • During the rescue, Tweak warns Kwazii about an oncoming school of needlefish and he pushes Sandy to the side of a fast-moving current. Then Kwazii manages to evade some rocky ledges before jumping onto Sandy.

The Slime Eels

The Arctic Orcas

  • Barnacles managing to evade the GUP-E from the moving icebergs.
  • Minor example. Inkling managing to beat Kwazii in a game on checkers in one move. Doubles a Funny Moment.
    Kwazii: (defeated; groans) I've been suckered.
  • Barnacles and Peso scaling up the iceberg to get to the GUP-E.
  • Then later on, when the iceberg starts to break apart, they try to stay with the GUP while trying to keep their balance.
    • Highlights include Barnacles using his body as a bridge so that Peso can get to the GUP and him catching Peso when the latter slips and almost falls.
  • Kwazii and the orca pod "spy-hopping". note  Kwazii in particular uses the GUP-C to use this move.
  • Kwazii's Big Damn Heroes moment when Barnacles and Peso fall off the iceberg.
  • The orca pod tipping the iceberg to get the GUP-E out.

The Lost Sea Star

The Giant Jelly

  • Jelly saving Peso from a shark. Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment since the latter fixed up the former's comb.
  • When there was no way of contacting Peso, Dashi uses the GUP-finder map to find Peso's radio, to locate Peso himself!
  • The Octonauts working together to get Peso out of Jelly. Barnacles uses the GUP-A to Push Jelly to the net Dashi and Shellington are holding, and when Jelly starts to swim away from it, Kwazii spikes him into the net freeing Peso!
    Dashi: Back of the net!

The Snapping Shrimp

  • The fact that a small shrimp can make snapping sounds so loud it can stun people.
  • This one's easy to miss. When Kwazii finds Peso knocked out, notice how he takes him back to the GUP-A, he carries his medical kit in one paw and the Peso himself in the other. Looks like Kwazii's stronger than he looks.
  • Peso's determination to do a check-up on the fish that got knocked out with Dashi is both this and heartwarming.

The Kelp Forest Rescue

  • Pinto managing to sneak onto the GUP-C without any of the other Octonauts noticing.
  • Peso calling out his younger brother for sneaking onto the GUP when he isn't supposed to. Although Kwazii is fairly impressed.
    Peso: Pinto! How did you sneak onboard?
    Kwazii: (impressed) Aha! A stowaway!
  • Peso taking charge of the mission after seeing that the baby snails (along with Shellington and Dashi) are tangled in the kelp.
  • Peso letting Pinto help out with the mission since the job involves a lot of unwrapping. Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment.

The Enormous Elephant Seal

  • The Octonauts getting Leon, an elephant seal that's huge, onto the Octopod and into the Sickbay.
  • Leon racing Peso in the hallway (though it turns out pretty bad) and then racing the GUP-A to get home.

The Sardine School

  • Kwazii showing off his tricks in the GUP-B. Then later sardine school shows off and then Kwazii and Dina show off their moves.
  • Kwazii protecting Dina from a shark after getting separated from her school.
  • Barnacles holding off three sharks buying more time for the others to arrive.
  • The crew helping the sardine school confuse the sharks, by driving the Gups in different directions.

The Eel Ordeal

  • The crew helping out a young and injured eel get to the lake. Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment.
  • Before reaching the lake, the crew had to go through some pretty rough waters. Special mention goes to Barnacles pulling his whole crew out of the rough waters and into the lake.

The Dolphin Reef rescue

  • The dolphin trio helping the Octonauts find coral pieces to save the sick reef.

The Pirate Parrotfish

  • Parrotfish Pete cleaning the GUP-A's windscreen in a matter of seconds.
  • Pete creating bubbles for the crew to keep the moray eels away from them.
  • When Peso's bubble pops, Barnacles and Kwazii lead him and Pete into a cave and block the entrance so that the eels won't get in.

The Electic Torpedo Rays

  • Barnacles tries to get to the steering dock to land the Octopod, but because it's losing power, the podium that reaches the dock only goes halfway. So what does he do? He enlists Kwazii and Peso to stand on each other so that he can reach the wheel and steer.
    • Kwazii and Peso managed to stay balanced while the captain was steering and while the whole Octopod is shaking.
  • The torpedo rays helping the Octonauts power the Octopod.
  • Sandy's Big Damn Heroes moment and her helping Barnacles get to the Octo-hatch.
  • Barnacles managing to steer the now-charged up Octopod away from the rocks.

The Midnight Zone

  • A very minor one: To see how the tunnels in the rock connect with each other, Dashi makes a camera small enough for the worm to wear. The camera in general is about the size of a coin!
  • Another small one: Peso finally acknowledges that even though the Midnight Zone is dark, it's not scary at all. In earlier episodes, it's shown that he was not very fond of dark places, especially the Midnight Zone, but now that he's been there a few times, he's finally okay with it!

The Mixed-Up Whales

  • Kwazii's attempts stop his blue whale friend from crashing into the Octopod.
  • The whole crew working together to clean and fix the Octopod. And they did it in less than a day!

The Seahorse Tale

The Enemy Anemones

  • The anemones can duplicate themselves, so much that they can make a whole army of themselves!
  • When Barnacles and Kwazii go back to Octopod, Peso is left to deal with the anemone army. A while later, Peso and the green crab are surrounded by two anemone hordes, and they start fighting each other! About a few stings later, Peso, of all people (or Octonauts in this case), gets fed up with their stinging and yells at them to stop! That takes guts to get two feuding crowds to stop what they're doing.
    Peso: STOP!!! Anemones, please! Stop! Stinging each other!
    • Then when it's revealed that the anemone clans were fighting over territory and that they're fighting over someone else's home, Peso decides that the anemone clans and the crabs should share the rock and stop stinging each other.
    • What's even better, is that Peso managed to take charge of the situation without the captain telling him to. It was his own choice! He took charge of the situation because not only he was pissed off with the fighting, he was worried that the feuding anemones might hurt the crab's friends.
  • This one's easy to miss: During the subplot where Tunip and the Vegimals are making pudding for the crew, the machine starts to go haywire and spews pudding on everyone. When everyone is gathered after the Octo-Alert Montage, notice how everyone is covered in pudding except for Tweak. She must've been able to dodge all those pudding blobs!

The Crafty Cuttlefish

  • The cuttlefish in general.
    • He managed to trick Peso into thinking he was a rock.
    • He can inflate himself to make it look like he grew twice his size.
    • And to top it all off he can even make ink blobs that look just like him!
  • Minor example: At the end of the episode, Tunip wants to play with the captain's compass again. His response?
    Tunip. Don't even think about it.

The Lost Lemon Shark

The Baby Dolphin

  • Minor one: When the baby dolphin had a hard time getting his shell back from a lobster, Kwazii comes to help him get it back.
    Kwazii: (to the lobster) Go snap somewhere else!
  • Kwazii saving the baby dolphin from a shark.

The Scary Spookfish

  • Even though he didn't know it (and even though the batteries died), Peso managed to take his patient home, using the GUP-E, while the GUP's batteries are low.
  • Tweak managing to fix the Hot Cocoa machine and calling out the captain for one mistake.
    Tweak: Next time, remember to put the marshmallows into the chocolate after it comes out of the machine.
  • Boo helping Peso steer himself away from the rocks as Tweak tows him up.
    • Kudos to Barnacles and Kwazii pushing and holding up a heavy, flat rock long enough for the GUP-E to make its way up.

The Oarfish

  • Even though it was a misunderstanding, Kwazii trying to save Peso (when he thought the latter was getting eaten) is this and heartwarming.
  • The oarfish itself. He's so big that he needed his body to fit through three tanks (the Launch Bay, the tank near the Launch Bay, and the tank in the Sick Bay) to have himself checked up.

The Combtooth Blenny

  • Even though it fails, Kwazii and Peso managed to make a raft to try to get home.

The Marine Iguanas

  • The other Octonauts helping Kwazii trying to catch one of the iguanas.
    • Prior to that, Kwazii catches the culprit but is struggling. So how does he get help? He throws a fork at the Octo-Alert button to alert everyone!
  • The marine iguanas helping the crew get out of the seaweed.

The Dwarf Lantern Shark

    Season 2 

The Great White Shark

  • Peso managing to evade the shark and get to the Octopod, while the GUP itself got damaged in the process.
  • Tweak flushing the shark out of the hatch.
  • The idea of the Octonauts of using tonic immobility to keep the shark at bay so that Peso could bandage his injured fin.
  • Kwazii distracting the shark on the Octo-Ski.
  • The way Peso gets to the great white to bandage his fin.
    • He climbs on the line of the GUP-X (which the GUP itself is moving), jumps onto said shark and uses his bandages to make a makeshift harness and rope (he wrapped himself to the shark) to bandage the fin.
  • Kwazii saving Peso from the shark once he got out of his trance.
  • Kwazii and Peso distracting the shark long enough for Barnacles to arrive with food.

The Sea Snakes

  • The sea krait mother managing to sneak onto the Octopod.
  • Tweak making snake grabbers and suction suits (the latter comes in handy for later).
  • Barnacles tilting the Octopod (using the Octopod's steering wheel) to keep the mother snake from leaving (due to the Octopod being near a whirlpool).
  • During the baby snake catching montage, Tweak manages to catch three at once.
  • Kwazii and Peso working together to get the last baby snake. While the whole Octopod inside a whirlpool.
    • When they do reach her, she loses grip and almost gets swept away by the water. That's when Peso jumps off the Octopod to catch her and Kwazii, who attaches his tail to the roof and also leaps to catch Peso and the baby snake, is impressed by his move.
    Kwazii: (impressed) Brave move, matey!
    Peso: (stunned) I...I can't believe I just did that!
  • Barnacles and Dashi getting the Octopod out of the whirlpool.

The Adelie Penguins

  • Kwazii saving Rocko from a seagull. Twice.
  • During the snowstorm, Peso makes a tent out of bandages to keep the chicks warm.
    Kwazii: We'd all be icicles if it weren't for this tent Peso!
  • Barnacles saving the Adelie penguin parents and using the GUP-C's ice chipping feature to break a path through the iceberg.

The Coconut Crabs

  • Kwazii racing the flying fish.
  • Tweak making a mechanical claw, capable of crushing coconuts!
  • The Octonauts and the Claws working together to crack open Calico Jack's coconut.
  • The Octonauts rescuing the young coconut crabs.
    • The Octonauts and the Coconut crabs use coconuts as a floatation device for the young crabs to use before Peso picks them up with the Octo-ski.
    • Apparently the GUP-X can fly!
    • During the rescue, Kwazii almost falls out of the GUP-X (due to rough winds), Claude catches him.
    Kwazii: (to Claude) Thanks for the catch matey! And I might add...Yeowch!
  • Apparently, the coconut Kwazii found was actually a hollowed-out cannonball made by Calico Jack.

The Colossal Squid

  • Barnacles' attempt to break the Octopod free from the colossal squid.
  • Inkling vs. the Colossal squid.
    • Tweak makes a robotic suit for the professor to wear to fight the squid. Bonus points: When he's in the suit, he can control the Octopod itself!
    • Two words: Professor. Inkling. Who knew Inkling was an expert at tentacle wrestling? He manages to fight off a squid who is freaking HUGE! And he has some pretty impressive moves that even Kwazii's impressed with!
    Kwazii: (to the professor) You're swashbuckling like a proper pirate, professor!
  • Barnacles and Kwazii trying to remove the squid's tentacles. While the squid is dragging the Octopod down!
    • Special mention goes to the captain lifting two at once and Kwazii saving him when an incoming tentacle was going to crush him.
  • A small one. This conversation when the squid tries to break free from the Octopod when a pod of sperm whales are nearing:
    Colossal Squid: (To Barnacles) Stop holding on to me! Let go!
  • The whole crew towing the Octopod and the squid away from the sperm whale pod. And then rescuing the Vegimals after the squid accidentally detaches the pod (Which the Vegimals are in) when he tried to break free. And then helping the squid get detached from the Octopod.

The Jawfish

  • Tweak makes a Jet Pack that works underwater!
  • Both Peso and Kwazii managed to rescue the eggs with their booster packs. But when Barnacles finds an egg in the rocky reef, he manages to get it without the use of the jetpack! Keep in mind, he managed to get the egg, while there were rocks falling everywhere!
  • The trio playing Keep Away with the egg vac (containing the last egg) to keep it away from a trio of hungry lemon sharks.
  • Kwazii tricking the lemon sharks into thinking that he tossed them the egg vac with the egg inside it. The trick was so convincing, even the captain thought he gave them the last egg!

The Flying Swords

  • Kwazii vs. three swordfish!
  • The Octonauts helping Kwazii get a swordfish to get his bill unstuck from the ship before an anchor falls on him.
  • Kwazii finding the sword of the Pirate King!

The Fiddler Crabs

  • One of the fiddler crabs is able to hijack the GUP-D, even though he didn't know it was just a GUP.
  • Barnacles managing to get the crabs to calm down and help them save their leader.
  • Barnacles and Kwazii going after the Fiddler Crab leader and the GUP-D, through a series of tunnels the GUP made.
    • Then when the GUP resurfaces, the two jump onto it and turns it off before it crushes Peso and the rest of the crabs.
  • Barnacles and Kwazii trying to rescue Peso and the injured crab from a sinkhole (that the GUP-D made after tunnelling too much underground).
    • And when they all fall into the sinkhole, Barnacles spots the Octo-scope, and grabs onto it, followed by everyone else grabbing onto him. Then the captain proceeds to swing everyone and himself out of the hole!
  • The fiddler crabs filling the sinkhole by spitting sandballs into it. Doubles as a Funny Moment.

The Porcupine Puffer

The Manta Rays

  • The whole scene where the crew and Muriel follow the swirling storm.
    • Then the chase turns into a rescue when the giant manta gets too close to it.
    • Then when the GUP loses power, the crew inadvertently uses Muriel as a sail as another way to get out of the storm.
  • The crew and Muriel travelling through an ocean current.
    • When they were about to approach a reef, everyone turns on their side to avoid crashing.
  • The manta ray feast itself. Dashi was right. It is worth a few shots.
  • A minor one. When the crew gets knocked off of Muriel, Dashi was the only one that managed to stay on.
  • Dashi rescuing the guys.
  • The remora fish who were teasing Muriel gets some comeuppance. By being grabbed by Kwazii and Peso when both were told to grab on.
  • The Octonauts getting out of the lagoon by helping Muriel leap out of it.
    • Before heading to the surface, Muriel manages to get Dashi’s camera. Keep in mind, she had trouble catching it earlier.
    • And when Muriel manages to leap out successfully and with people riding her, Dashi jumps off to snap a shot of the crew riding on Muriel!
      • Even better: The shot is used for the cover of National Sea-o-graphic!

The Scared Sperm Whale

  • Barnacles managing to talk down the sperm whale pod when they mistook Peso for an orca.
  • Peso helping Simon (a young sperm whale) learn to dive. Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment.
  • When Peso gets trapped inside a giant clam, Simon immediately goes to Barnacles and Kwazii for help.
  • A minor one. When the duo dive down into the trench, they didn't put on their deep-sea suits. Guess that trench wasn't so deep.
  • Simon finally having the guts to dive down and rescue Peso! He even leaps out of the water Free Willy style!
    Simon: I can do this! (Leaps out of the water) THIS TIME IT'S FOR PESO!
    • And that's followed by his Big Damn Heroes moment when Barnacles and Kwazii are struggling to lift the clam Peso's in.
  • Another minor one. When the captain goes over to Simon, he inadvertently leaves Kwazii to try to lift the clam and Peso. Kwazii was able to lift Peso before, now he manages to hold something twice as Peso's weight (even though he's struggling a little)!
  • How Barnacles and Kwazii free Peso from the giant clam.

The Long-armed Squid

The Bowhead Whales

  • The fact that Boris and his narwhal friends were able to hold their breath for a long time deserves a mention.
  • The bowhead whales rescuing the narwhals by bashing their heads into the ice wall.
  • A minor one. Kwazii mentions that he has a working cannon under his bed.

The Damselfish

  • Pete, Sandy and Robert having their own ways of evading the damselfish school.
  • A minor one. Tweak managing to put damselfish vision in the captain's binoculars.
  • Kwazii nearly attacking the damselfish leader after telling Barnacles to scram.
    • Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment: The damselfish leader is seen dissing the captain when the latter tries to get the former to share the algae. No wonder why Kwazii tried to attack the leader. Not only is Barnacles the captain of the Octonauts crew, but he's also Kwazii's best friend. He was just trying to defend him.
  • Dashi and Tweak managing to make a camera look just like a damselfish. Complete with damselfish vision, of course!
  • The whole Batman Gambit of leading the damselfish leader to the other side of the reef to see that the coral is sick, to get him to share the algae with the other fish.
    • First up; Pete, Sandy and Robert distract the school with previously mentioned skills that they have.
    • Second, Kwazii drops down from the GUP-B and takes the leader's algae resulting in the damselfish to give chase.
    • Four words: Peso piloting the GUP-B! Even though he states that he's never driven a "getaway GUP" before, he manages to drive it in a way that would make Kwazii proud.
      • Special mention goes to how he maneuvers around a big rock and even manages to trick the damselfish school. Barnacles tells him to fake going right, then head left.
      • Peso even says this after the riding experience:
      "That was absolutely...brilliant!" note 

The Humphead Parrotfish

  • The meteor shower.
  • Barnacles, Kwazii and Peso using magnets to try to stop the meteor from crashing into the Octopod.
    • When that only slows down the speeding meteor, Hattie (the humphead parrotfish the crew encountered before) comes to help them out by getting her school to eat up the meteor.

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