Episode recap page for The Babaloos. Episodes succeeded by a “TBA” have plot summaries which are currently unknown or missing key details.
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The Babaloos
- “Baby Towel Does The Dishes”: The Babaloos find that Mother Towel has disappeared. While Little Pencil and Miss Toothbrush search for her, Baby Towel has to wash the dishes by himself.
- “Wrong Stitch”: While playing, Teaspoon and Baby Towel manage to unravel one of Kevin’s socks into a string- which is now wrapped around most of the living room!
- “An Indelible Night”: Baby Towel accidentally knocks over a bottle of ink and, in his efforts to clean up the spill, manages to stain himself bright blue.
- “Whoops-A-Daisy Slipper Ride”: Thanks to Baby Towel, the Slippers get the “brilliant” idea of attaching wheels to themselves to become roller skates.
- “The Sand Castle”: Kevin lost his first tooth, and the Babaloos want to give him a gift. After considering their options, they decide to build him a sandcastle in the backyard.
- “Clever Little Pencil”: Little Pencil, upon discovering that Kevin hasn’t finished his math homework, decides to give the other Babaloos a math lesson.
- “S.O.S. Slippers”: Kevin’s mother decides that Kevin needs a new pair of slippers, much to the gossipy footwear pair’s horror.
- “Big Chill For Baby Towel”: Somehow, Baby Towel manages to lock himself in the freezer and freeze himself solid, leaving the other Babaloos with the tricky task of thawing him out before dawn.
- “Mrs. Coffeepot Blows Her Top”: An accident leads to Mrs. Coffeepot losing her head- I mean, her lid.
- “A Fishy Adventure”: Kevin has to pet-sit a friend’s goldfish over the holidays.
- “Black Thoughts”: Paintbrush tries to make a picture with the help of Mr. Ink Jar, but shades of black make for a very gloomy portrait…
- “A Tricky Tart”: Kevin accidentally added salt instead of sugar to a cake he baked, requiring the Babaloos to have to scramble to bake a replacement before dawn.
- “Hide-And-Seek”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon are playing hide-and-seek, and Baby Towel hides in the washing machine. Unfortunately, Teaspoon somehow accidentally turns the washing machine on…
- “Time’s Up”: A stupid accident breaks Clock’s inner mechanisms, and the other Babaloos have to figure out how to fix him before dawn.
- “Slippery Stars”: Seeing that the pond in the garden has frozen over, Mrs. Fork decides to organize a skating competition. Near-disaster ensues.
- “A Rival For Miss Toothbrush”: The haughty Ms. Ballpoint Pen visits the Babaloos, and when Miss Toothbrush questions her boasts, she finds herself having to face her in a race.
- “Who Are You?”: The Babaloos discover a mysterious package on the living room table, which turns out to contain some very unusual visitors…
- “Candy-Coated Mr. Bowl”: Mr. Bowl gets a piece of sticky candy stuck inside him, due to something that very definitely isn’t Baby Towel’s fault.
- “Enjoy Your Meal, Mr. Vac”: All around the house, Babaloos are terrified. The all-devouring Mr. Vac is awake!
- “Les Belles du nuit”note : The flowers in the garden look oddly wilted, so the Babaloos try to figure out how to bring them back to a healthy bloom.
- “Paint Box And Paper Chain”: The Babaloos have to work to complete some unfinished paper decorations Kevin was supposed to make.
- “Hopping Beans”: Baby Towel and Little Teaspoon accidentally spill a can of beans- Mexican jumping beans, which the Babaloos will have a heck of a time catching.
- “Miss Toothbrush Makes The Big Time”: After seeing a TV commercial for toothpaste, Miss Toothbrush develops a desire to be a TV star.
- “Night Fall”: While playing on the swings in Kevin’s backyard, Baby Towel and Teaspoon discover some Babaloos who are very similar to themselves who live in the neighbor’s house.
- “Making Mountains”: The Babaloos find themselves having to make a model of Mount Everest after the one Kevin made for school is inadvertently thrown out.
- “A High-Flying Rescue”: While the other Babaloos wash dishes, Cork becomes trapped in a soap bubble and carried away through the air.
- “Forgotten Teddy”: Teddy is worried that Kevin no longer wants to play with him.
- “All Fired Up”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon manage to almost burn the house down.
- “L’heure est grave”note : Wanting to be able to play for longer, Baby Towel and Teaspoon try to set Clock back a little without his knowledge. Bad idea!
- “Unidentified Flying Object”: One night, a strange green saucer-shaped object flies in through an open window and crash-lands in the living room. The Babaloos are convinced their new guest is from space, and the guest, having gotten amnesia in the crash, is unable to refute this…
- “In Search Of Gold”: Kevin has lost his keys, and the Babaloos want to find them before he misses them next morning. He lost them in the sandbox, so this will not be an easy task…
- “Kevin’s Surprise”: Kevin has prepared a birthday surprise for his mother in the garage, which the Babaloos nearly manage to ruin.
- “Little Lost Button”: The Babaloos find a small button who is looking for his family.
- “A Sticky Situation”: Mr. Paste-Pot, not realizing his lid is missing, manages to spread glue over most of the house.
- “Is That Santa?”: Baby Towel dresses up as Santa in order to give the other Babaloos a proper Christmas.
- “Car Capers”: The Babaloos find Kevin’s remote-control car and have fun driving it around- until it goes out of control and crashes into the garage.
- “Miss Fork’s Mishap”: Mrs. Fork accidentally falls into the garbage can and can’t get out- and garbage collection is coming that morning.
- “Babaloos’ Floor Hockey”: Seeing that the kitchen floor has been freshly polished and is very slippery, the Babaloos decide to organize a game of hockey.
- “A Well-Kept Secret”: It’s the five-year anniversary of when Umbrella came to live with the Babaloos, so the others want to throw him a party.
- “Sponge’s Clean Break”: When Mrs. Fork refuses to acknowledge how hard Sponge works to wash dishes, Sponge decides to go on strike…
- “Look Out For The Ice”: Miss Toothbrush discovers a huge layer of ice that has formed in front of the front door, and decides that the Babaloos must break it up before dawn, lest Kevin or his parents slip and hurt themselves.
- “Bathtub Rescue Operation”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon jump into the full bathtub for a swim, but find themselves unable to climb out of it.
- “Photo Shoot”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon discover Kevin’s new camera, and immediately become captivated taking pictures of themselves.
- “Burning Suspense”: Investigating Kevin’s dresser, Baby Towel and Teaspoon unexpectedly find Mr. Lighter.
- “Mess Of Trouble”: The Babaloos discover that Kevin forgot to take out the trash, so they try to do it for him.
- “Learning To Shine”: The shoe-shining brush wants to learn how to be an artist, but haughty Paintbrush refuses to teach her.
- “To The Beach”: Kevin is planning to go on a trip to the beach. The Babaloos, wanting to experience the beach themselves, try to sneak into his luggage.
- “The Slide”: Baby Towel discovers a piece of pipe which the Babaloos have fun using as a slide- right up until the Slipper sisters try to go through it and get stuck.
- “Fancy Featherette”: The haughty Feather Duster joins the Babaloos.
- “Mrs. Fork’s Fling”: A chance remark leaves Mrs. Fork convinced that she needs to learn to have fun. This is gonna be good…
- “Back To Earth”: Mrs. Fork reads somewhere that it’s fashionable to go “back to earth” and decides to take up gardening, despite her complete and utter lack of knowledge on the subject.
- “Calamity Joe”: Joe the plastic plate entertains the Babaloos by flying around the house like a Frisbee- unfortunately, one of his landings destroys a puzzle that Kevin had been working hard on.
- “Baby, It’s Cold Inside”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon open the window while a snowstorm rages outside. Soon the living room is covered in show…
- “Paper Flowers”: Kevin made a paper bouquet as a surprise gift for his mother, but his paper flowers are blown out the window…
- “Ghosts On The Loose”: Mysterious knocking sounds leave Baby Towel and Teaspoon convinced that Kevin’s house is haunted.
- “Gare a Cotillion”note : The Babaloos have themselves an unexpected guest in the form of Party Hat, whose “entertaining” antics soon prove extremely annoying.
- “Baby Towel’s First Storm”: It’s thundering outside, and Baby Towel can’t take it.
- “Della’s Prima Donnas”: The Babaloos decide to hold a singing competition.
- “Missing Keys”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon free two keys from a hook, but soon realize that they should have just left them hanging…
- “Snowball Situations”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon manage to destroy a snowball Kevin had been storing in the freezer, and have to collect a replacement from outside.
- “Coup de klaxon chez les Babalous”note : While in the garage checking out the family’s new car, Teaspoon accidentally locks herself inside it…
- “First Aid For Faucet”: The kitchen faucet has developed a very irritating drip.
- “The Dark Knight Of The Night”: The Babaloos discover a cardboard dragon- a prop from a play Kevin’s school will be putting on- and decide to stage a performance of their own.
- “The Key Mission”: The Babaloos need to find a safe hiding place for Kevin’s father’s keys.
- “The Treasure Hunt”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon find a treasure map on Kevin’s table, and decide to follow it. The fact that they’ll have to climb over the backyard fence to get to the “X” doesn’t seem to deter them…
The Babaloos On Vacation
- “Friend”: Baby Towel finds one night that no one feels like playing with him, not even Teaspoon.
- “The Crab Dance”: On the beach, Mrs. Fork finds a crab whose sideways scuttling makes it, somehow, a good dance partner.
- “Cheese Fondue”: When attempting to cook a cheese fondue, the Babaloos inadvertently spill globs of sticky cheese. Very sticky cheese.
- “A Slipper-y Adventure”: The Slipper sisters go for a walk in the snow with the assistance of the Snowshoe brothers.
- “Baby Towel Blues”: Kevin’s family is planning to continue their trip with a drive to the mountains, but Baby Towel would rather stay on the beach. What’s a little dishcloth to do but sabotage the camper van’s ignition?
- “A Silly Bet”: Mr. Bowl tries to go swimming in the river, but gets caught in the current and swept away.
- “Mister I-Can-Do-Everything”: The Babaloos are joined by a Swiss army knife, who so impresses them with his many functions that Mrs. Fork declares all other knives unnecessary.
- “A Very Special Race”: The Babaloos decide to have a sledding race, and Baby Towel’s attempts to cheat lead to him and Frisbee ending up in a tree.
- “Slippers’ Rescue”: One of the Slipper sisters… well, slips, and falls into the ocean. Will the Babaloos be able to rescue her?
- “The Rescue Patrol”: Teaspoon, while out playing in the snow, falls into a burrow. While the other Babaloos are desperately searching for her, she befriends the burrow’s maker, a very ticklish marmot.
- “The Scary Scarecrow”: The Babaloos encounter a scarecrow who has a desperate problem: Crows are no longer afraid of him, and so his farmer is planning to replace him.
- “The Phantom Of The Shipwreck”: A storm hits while the Babaloos are out exploring, and the only available shelter is a boat that seems… oddly creepy.
- “Feather Hatcher”: The Babaloos discover a nest of apparently abandoned duck eggs, and together Baby Towel, the Slipper Sisters, and Featherette try to keep it warm.
- “Needle In A Haystack”: Compass has lost her needle and with it, her sense of direction. And when she finally remembers where she lost her needle, it turns out to be in a haystack!
- “The Buggy Breakdown”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon drive Kevin’s toy car around the beach, but end up crashing into a rock and then getting stuck in the water.
- “Easter Egg”: While playing, Baby Towel and Teaspoon accidentally destroy an Easter egg that Kevin hid. They try to get a replacement… from a mother duck’s nest.
- “Save The Beach”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon once again want to play on the beach, but find it covered in litter.
- “Heat Wave”: Mr. Lighter’s impromptu campfire spreads like… well, like wildfire.
- “Moon Gems”: Kevin’s mother has lost her wedding ring on the beach, and the Babaloos are searching the sand, determined to find it for her.
- “The Impostor”: The Babaloos must contend with a red blob of clay who can take on the shape of any one of them.
- “The Adventurers”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon are playing with Kevin’s toy sheriff’s badge when a magpie spies the shiny star and snatches it away. And then it swoops down and steals Mrs. Fork…
- “Two Of A Kind”: The rather battered Boot sisters have an argument and decide to separate forever, but the Babaloos can’t just let that happen…
- “One Babaloo Too Many”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon find a little bell and decide to take him in to the camper. Unfortunately, Mrs. Fork thinks only a Babaloo with a proper job should be accepted into their group.
- “To Each His Own Nuts”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon, looking for some nuts to snack on, try to steal from a squirrel’s stash.
- “Message In A Bottle”: While playing on the beach, Baby Towel and Teaspoon (it’s always those two) spy a message floating in a glass bottle.
- “The Airplane Ride”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon try to ride Kevin’s paper airplane, and find themselves swept up by the wind.
- “Night Light”: Mr. Flashlight sees glowing signals in the night, and believes his cousin is trying to contact him.
- “The Abominable Yeti”: After hearing about the Abominable Snowman, Teddy gets the idea to impersonate it to scare Teaspoon and Baby Towel.
- “The Right Way”: The Babaloos decide to build Kevin a snowman, but can’t agree on how this should be done.
- “The Treasure Map”: TBA
- “A Flower For Vase”: Vase is upset because he never gets to go outside. The other Babaloos try to cheer him up by bringing nature to him.
- “Flight Of The Robin”: Mrs. Fork and Mother Towel try to teach a seemingly parentless baby robin how to fly.
- “The Four-Leaf Clover”: Broom and Dustpan accidentally throw out a four-leaf clover Kevin found, necessitating that the Babaloos find a replacement.
- “Freedom At Last”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon, fed up with being told what to do by Mrs. Fork, try to run away.
- “Prince Charming”: Miss Toothbrush, believing the legend of the Frog Prince, sets off for a nearby pond to try and find the prince of her dreams.
- “Slip-Sliding Away”: The Tools start to rust after getting wet. To help them, the Babaloos try to fetch some oil, but all they do is create a big mess…
- “Mushrooms!”: To prove to Baby Towel and Teaspoon that mushrooms aren’t flowers, Mrs. Fork eats some. Mr. Bowl is convinced that those mushrooms were poisonous, however. (Never mind why a fork would be affected by poison, or how one could eat in the first place…)
- “Trouble’s A-Brewing At The Babaloos’”: The camper van’s window is stuck open and letting in a heavy rainstorm. The tools could fix it, but they’re on strike after Mrs. Fork insulted them.
- “The Artist”: A squirrel kidnaps Mrs. Fork, for reasons that may or may not have to do with something Paintbrush did.
- “It’s Hard To Be A Knife”: Mr. Knife, believing the other Babaloos avoid him due to his dangerously sharp blade, starts trying to dull his edge.
- “An Infernal Climb”: The Babaloos decide to go mountain-climbing. This can’t end well.
- “Victor”: Victor, an arrogant trophy, annoys the other Babaloos to no end with his boasts. The Babaloos decide to bring him back down to earth by having him prove his words in a race.
- “The Booby-Trapped Path”: The Babaloos are having another race. Mr. Bowl is in last place and wants to give up… until a bat starts dive-bombing him.
- “Booky Loses His Memory”: Booky is missing a few pages, and the Babaloos are determined to find them so they can know how the story ends.
- “Sunburn”: Mrs. Fork gets sunstroke on the beach, and starts acting crazy.
- “Quack-Quack”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon float in a nearby lake with the help of a duck-shaped inner tube… which quickly attracts the attention of some real ducks.
- “Moonlight Romance”: Party Hat has fallen in love with Mrs. Fork, and sings her a serenade with the help of Harmonica. Mrs. Fork is taken by the ballad… and falls in love with Harmonica.
- “The Rooster”: Alarm Clock is driven crazy by a rooster which seems determined to steal his job of “waking up Kevin when he’d rather still be asleep”.
- “A Stormy Night”: While hiking in the mountains, the Babaloos are caught in a storm. Baby Towel and Tea- actually no, this time it’s Baby Towel and Teddy who panic and hide in a cave.
- “The Bees’ Wrath”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon steal honey from a beehive, and have to run to hide from the swarm.
- “A Fork By Any Other Name”: Mrs. Fork is visited by an old rival determined to get her revenge.
- “Tag”: Spraypaint leaves his ugly graffiti all over rocks on the beach.
- “We’ll Call Each Other”: An annoyingly talkative cell phone visits the Babaloos and, finding them terribly old-fashioned (oh, the irony), brags about his advanced functions- until his battery runs out.
- “Ice Quake In The Snow”: The Babaloos admire a beautiful igloo… until Hammer accidentally brings it down while Mrs. Fork and Wrench are still inside.
- “Midnight Dip”: The Plate sisters, bored of their boring indoor life, decide to go for a swim under the stars.
- “Castle Under Siege”: The Babaloos find their sandcastle menaced by a rampaging crab.
- “All Washed Up”: While playing, Baby Towel and Teaspoon manage to get Kevin’s soccer jersey dirty, and must clean it up before daybreak.
- “Bat Attack”: A bat flies into the camper van… right after Umbrella finishes telling the other Babaloos a scary story about vampires.
- “Don’t Touch Moneybox”: Teddy and Frisbee, afraid that Kevin is planning to buy new toys to replace them, attempt to steal coins out of Moneybox.
- “Mirror, Mirror”: A mirror leaves the Babaloos all convinced that they need to change their appearance to be more beautiful. Only Little Pencil realizes this is ultimately a pointless endeavor…
- “Rhythm Is My Blood”: TBA
- “The Babaloos Make Movies”: Baby Towel and Teaspoon want to make a movie with the help of Camera, but Mrs. Fork intrudes and quickly appoints herself as star of the production.
- “Mrs. Fork To The Rescue”: While playing with Baby Towel, Teaspoon falls into a cave. Who can save her? The episode title certainly doesn’t answer that…
- “Camping Car Mayhem”: A frog somehow finds its way into the camper van and causes chaos inside.
- “The Departure”: Perfume Bottle sprays the other Babaloos with his perfume. While annoying, this proves to be a lifesaver, as Baby Towel and Mr. Lighter are buried in an avalanche and Perfume Bottle is able to rescue them by tracking their scent.
