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The Recap page for The Wild Thornberrys. The episodes are listed in broadcast order.


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    Pilot 

The pilot was only included in the VHS release, and is not available on DVD.

  1. Pilot: While in Kenya, Eliza decides to track down a black rhino to help Nigel and Marianne with filming one. However, Donnie angers the rhino into attacking them, and poachers Kip and Biedermann are following Eliza to get the rhino's horn.

    Season 1 

  1. Flood Warning: The Thornberrys are in Tanzania near Mount Kilimanjaro to film lions, where Debbie is allowed to drive the comvee for the first time. However she ends up driving it into into a riverbank, where a flash flood washes it away, prompting her and Eliza to go out and search for it.
  2. Dinner with Darwin: In the Amazon rainforest, Eliza and Darwin get into an argument over the latter's ability to survive in the wild, prompting Darwin to go out to the jungle alone and prove he's still got it. Meanwhile, Nigel and Marianne discover an uncontacted tribe and try to film them without being spotted.
  3. Bad Company: In the Amazon rainforest, Eliza, Darwin, and Donnie have to deal with a massive swarm of marmosets that have overrun the campsite. Meanwhile, Nigel and Marianne use tree-climbing cables to try and film the goliath bird-eating spider, while Debbie searches for rainforest ingredients to make her own shampoo.
  4. Gold Fever: On the Galapagos Islands, Eliza learns from a Galapagos tortoise of a cove with an old pirate ship, where she discovers a treasure map that she and Debbie team up to find. However, the girls' greed for gold makes things tense between them.
  5. Matadi or Bust: The Thornberrys are in the Congo where they need to catch a boat to the port city of Matadi. But on the barge on the way to Matadi, Eliza discovers that Kip and Biedermann are secretly transporting a captured hippopotamus and tries to free the animal.
  6. Temple of Eliza: Eliza rescues a jaguar in the Amazon rainforest and is made queen by the other jaguars in gratitude, which she gladly decides to take advantage of due to being tired of her own family ignoring her. Meanwhile, Nigel and Marianne conduct tests to discover Donnie's birth nationality.
  7. Vacant Lot: Kip and Biedermann are in the Amazon rainforest using a massive machine to clearcut vast acres of jungle, and the only one who can help the animals stop them is Eliza. Meanwhile, Nigel and Marianne search for a way to contact the authorities about it while Debbie tries to listen to a radio show.
  8. Only Child: At the banks of the Amazon River, Debbie befriends a mysterious local girl, but Eliza believes that the girl is not a human, but rather a mythic encantado, an Amazon river dolphin with the ability to assume human form. Meanwhile, Nigel searches for the ingredients he needs to perfect his insect repellent.
  9. Iron Curtain: The Thornberrys are at an enclosed wildlife preserve in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater to film African elephants, where Eliza (who sees the place as an elephant prison) helps a baby elephant escape so he can be with his mother. Meanwhile, Donnie runs wild in the preserve and is mistaken for "the missing link".
  10. Valley Girls: The Thornberrys are in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to film the great crested grebe. However, while Nigel and Marianne are off, Debbie and Eliza accidentally send the comvee rolling downhill and into a muddy bank, where they need to get it out and back to the top of the plateau before their parents return.
  11. Naimina Enkiyio: While at the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, Eliza befriends a group of Maasai children, who tell her of a dark forest where anyone who enters never returns. Unafraid of the legend, Eliza decides to spend a night in the woods and prove her bravery to her new friends.
  12. Blood Sisters: The Thornberrys are in the Andes Mountains to visit Dr. Spinoza, a leading expert on vampire bats and former professor of Marianne. But as soon as they discover Dr. Spinoza's mountain home is an old gothic castle, Eliza starts to wonder if the man is in fact a vampire himself.
  13. Eliza-cology: The Thornberrys are in the Galapagos Islands to film sea turtles coming to shore to lay their eggs. However, when Eliza helps a woodpecker finch by giving it an unfair advantage in getting food, she ends up disrupting the island's whole ecosystem.
  14. Flight of the Donnie: When Marianne falls sick in the Andes Mountains, Eliza and Debbie must take over her duties. So while Debbie helps Nigel film Andean condors, Eliza must babysit Donnie, who is captured by a condor that mistakes him for her lost chick when he covers himself in feathers.
  15. Lost & Foundation: The Thornberrys are in Sumatra, Indonesia, where Nigel and Marianne are going to attend an awards banquet in Padang. However, Eliza and Debbie discover that their parents have mistakenly brought a video collection of embarrassing home movies to be shown, and race to give them the correct tapes.
  16. Nigel Knows Best: The Thornberrys are in the Andes mountains, where Nigel and Eliza decide to go for a climb. However, Eliza's adventurous nature ends up getting her separated and in serious trouble. Meanwhile, Marianne receives a care package from her mother, Sophie, that leads her to believe her mother disapproves of her parenting.
  17. The Great Bangaboo: While in the town of Sambas in Borneo, Indonesia, Eliza learns of a magician named The Great Bangaboo who can speak to animals and tries to find him. Meanwhile, Kip and Biedermann capture Donnie to put him on display, while Debbie visits a trapeze act to flirt with one of the performers.
  18. Rumble in the Jungle: Deep in the jungles of Borneo, Indonesia, Eliza befriends a troop of macaques who live in constant fear of a rival troop and promises to help them defeat their enemy. Meanwhile, Darwin befriends another group of macaques that has the exact same problem...
  19. The Dragon and the Professor: Eliza's homeschooling teacher comes to visit her on the island of Rinca in Indonesia, where the Thornberrys are filming Komodo dragons. And although her teacher wants her to complete some important schoolwork, Eliza will stop at nothing to see a Komodo dragon up close and personal.
  20. Born to Be Wild: The Thornberrys are in the jungles of Sumatra, Indonesia, where Nigel hopes to find the one animal he has never successfully tracked - the rare Sumatran rhino. However, Eliza learns that this rhino actually doesn't want to be seen by any humans. Meanwhile, Debbie befriends a group of surfers.

    Season 2 

  1. Rebel Without a Trunk: The Thornberrys are in Maharashtra, India, where Marianne and Eliza are riding elephants together to get to a festival. While Eliza befriends her mischievous mount and gets into a lot of trouble in the process, Nigel, Debbie, Darwin, and Donnie throw a party.
  2. Pal Joey: On the island of Tasmania in Australia, Eliza rescues a mother kangaroo from Tasmanian devils and offers to babysit for the exhausted parent, only to find that her joey is quite the handful. Meanwhile, Nigel and Marianne organize a prom night for Debbie.
  3. Rain Dance: The Thornberrys' comvee breaks down in the middle of the Namib Desert in Namibia - and during a drought, no less! While Nigel sets off in search of help and Marianne tries to conserve water, Eliza convinces the local wildlife that she can bring the rains back.
  4. Darwin Plays the Palace: In Maharashtra, India, Darwin is captured by Kip and Biedermann, who sell him as a performing pet to a local prince. Eliza is naturally determined to get her best friend out and back with her family, but Darwin much prefers the luxury and privilege he gets in his new home.
  5. Stick Your Neck Out: On the Serengeti of Tanzania, Eliza learns from the local herbivores of a giraffe who always looks out for predators and is inspired by it. However, she soon discovers, much to her dismay, that this giraffe in fact does not care about the other animals or helping them.
  6. No Laughing Matter: When the comvee runs empty on the Serengeti plains in Tanzania, the Thornberrys stop at a local gas station to get a refuel. There, Eliza discovers the owner keeps a baby hyena all caged up, so she frees the animal, only to discover it has no idea how to survive in the wild.
  7. Chimp Off the Old Block: The Thornberrys are in the Congo rainforest, where Eliza hopes to meet chimpanzees. However, she quickly learns firsthand that just because she can converse with animals doesn't mean she knows how to fit in with the complex structures of their societies.
  8. Koality & Kuantity: The Thornberrys are in Victoria, Australia to film koalas, only to discover every grove for miles is koala-less. But as Eliza soon finds out, it's because Kip and Biedermann are capturing koalas by the dozens to take them to a port in Melbourne and sell them overseas as exotic pets.
  9. Chew if by Sea: The Thornberrys are in Sydney, Australia to take a boat to India. However, a wombat that Eliza befriended can't abide to be separated from her and sneaks aboard the vessel, meaning Eliza now has to hide the marsupial from the authorities and somehow return it to the Outback.
  10. Clash of the Teutons: The Thornberrys are in Australia's Great Dividing Range to film the extremely rare Leadbeater's possum when they encounter their filmmaking rivals, the Fensterkopfs. However, Eliza discovers that the Fensterkopfs have a far less ethical approach to filming wildlife that threatens the possum they're looking for.
  11. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yeti: The Thornberrys are in the Himalayas of Nepal to film snow leopards that are being threatened by the construction of a mountain resort in the area, but a mysterious being is interfering with activity up there, and Eliza believes it may be a mythical yeti.
  12. On the Right Track: The Thornberrys are in Lappland, Finland to see and film the annual reindeer races held by the locals. There, Eliza helps an excluded reindeer by entering the race and win, but also discovers that Kip and Biedermann have entered the race to cheat their way to victory.
  13. Polar Opposites: The Thornberrys are in Greenland, where local villagers believe that a polar bear being studied by a colleague of the family has gone rogue and is attacking their town. While Eliza sets out to prove the bear is innocent, Debbie gets a job as a waitress at a diner to save up money.
  14. Two's Company: While visiting an animal sanctuary in Ecuador, Eliza meets Lonesome Jake, who is thought to be the last tortoise of his kind. However, she soon learns of a surviving female named Samantha and decides to play matchmaker for the two of them. Meanwhile, Debbie discovers that Donnie has fallen in love with a wild girl.
  15. Show Me the Bunny: The Thornberrys are in Lappland, Finland to film wolverines. While Nigel and Marianne set out to find them, Eliza tries to make peace between an Arctic hare, a hungry stoat hunting it, and some fur trappers who want to kill the stoat, while Debbie starts to become convinced that aliens have visited Earth.
  16. Reef Grief: When Marianne has to head to the outback to get new footage of kangaroos, Eliza helps Nigel film the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, only to find herself way above her head when Nigel gets trapped underwater in the comvee with the only animals around to help being the local dugongs.
  17. Thornberry Island: While in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the comvee gets stranded on an uncharted island and the Thornberrys gets locked out of it due to a security mishap. As a result, the family has to rough it, but soon begin to crack even in the midst of their tropical paradise.
  18. Dances With Dingoes: In the Australian outback not too far from Uluru, Debbie finds Eliza playing with a pack of dingoes and quickly realizes she can speak with animals. In order to prevent her sister from revealing her secret, Eliza turns to some local Aboriginals for assistance.
  19. Tamper-Proof Seal: The Thornberrys are at Skagway, Alaska, where Eliza befriends an Inuit boy named Jim, while the rest of the family find themselves in quite the conundrum when their comvee ends up trapped in the middle of a highly territorial colony of seals.
  20. You Otter Know: The Thornberrys are at Siberia's Kamchatka Peninsula to film Steller's sea eagle. While Nigel and Marianne search for the bird and Debbie discovers a hot spring to relax in, Eliza has to stop Kip and Biedermann from stealing oil from an abandoned tanker and causing a spill that threatens the local sea otters.
  21. Have Yourself A Thornberry Little Christmas: The Thornberrys are celebrating Christmas along Namibia's unforgiving Skeleton Coast, but Eliza's need to help the local wildlife survive their harsh environment may end up potentially ruining Christmas for the family.
  22. Luck Be an Aye-Aye: When the Thornberrys are in Madagascar to film chameleons, Donnie kidnaps an aye-aye to keep as a pet. While Eliza tries to help the aye-aye return to the wild, local villagers (who believe the animal is an evil spirit that brings bad luck) try to kill it before its mythical curse spreads.
  23. The Kung and I: The Thornberrys are in Botswana's Kalahari Desert, visiting a local tribe of !Kung people. However, much to everyone's surprise, Debbie is fluent in the Kung language and instantly becomes popular with the villagers, making Eliza extremely jealous.
  24. Dear Diary: When the Thornberrys are in Cuzco, Peru, Eliza ends up taking a peek at Debbie's diary and discovering that her sister considers her an embarrassment, which ends up seriously straining their relationship after Debbie discovers what Eliza has done.
  25. Black and White and Mom All Over: The Thornberrys are deep in the montane forests of China in search of the famous giant panda. There, Eliza ends up discovering a panda cub whose mother is nowhere to be found and decides to take care of it, only for the animal to "imprint" on Debbie instead.
  26. A Tiger by the Tail: Grandma Sophie comes to visit the Thornberrys, who are camping near Siberia's Ussuri River in search of the Siberian tiger. There, Eliza hopes to reunite with a tigress she befriended months ago, while Sophie shows to her family that she plans on overcoming her usual fearfulness.
  27. Forget Me Not: While in Kenya near Mount Kilimanjaro, Eliza befriends an old elephant matriarch named Rebecca whom Nigel rescued from poachers twenty years ago. However, at the same time, the rest of the Thornberrys are also searching for Rebecca, only to discover another elephant (one of Rebecca's daughters) stuck in mud.
  28. Song for Eliza: Off the coast of Kahoʻolawe, Hawaii, Eliza hopes to swim with visiting humpback whales, only to accidentally knock Debbie's blaring boombox into the ocean and cause serious disruption amongst the whales that puts the whole family in serious trouble with the authorities.
  29. Gift of Gab: In this flashback episode set two years before the series proper, Eliza recounts how she befriended Darwin and got her ability to speak to animals when the Thornberrys were in Nigeria on their very first documentary-making venture (to film aardvarks).
  30. Bogged Down: The Thornberrys are in the Philippines to film tropical fish. While Marianne helps Debbie study for her history test, Eliza films for Nigel, only for Nigel to be stung by an extremely poisonous stonefish. Now Eliza must race to retrieve the antidote, which she accidentally left behind in a dark and mysterious swamp.
  31. Monkey See, Monkey Don't: Eliza meets a group of langurs in Karnataka, India who live by a local temple and claim to her they are suffering from serious food shortages. A sympathetic Eliza decides to help the monkeys by stealing food from her own family, but Darwin is suspicious of them.
  32. Where the Gauchos Roam: The Thornberrys are in Argentina, visiting Marianne's old friend Gabriella and her husband, a gaucho named Ramon, who invites the family on a cattle drive. Additionally, Ramon and Gabriella's son Miguel is joining them, and Eliza is eager to help him feel more confident about his gaucho skills.
  33. A Shaky Foundation: While at Victoria Falls in Zambia, the Thornberrys are visited by Tom, the son of the head of the Foundation, who is here to help them film the rock hyrax. However, Eliza finds herself immensely frustrated by how Tom constantly treats her like a small child.
  34. Cheetahs Never Prosper: While in Uganda at the height of the dry season, Eliza discovers a lost cheetah cub and tries to reunite it with its mother. However, she quickly discovers that when starvation and thirst are plaguing them, wild animals are not very likely to show gratefulness towards others.
  35. Gobi Yourself: The Thornberrys are in Mongolia to film the Gobi bear, where Eliza secretly switches places with a Mongolian girl named Arioka so the two can enjoy each others' lives. However, their plans to reunite and switch back are waysided by a change in plans from Arioka's family, meaning Eliza now needs to find a way back.
  36. Every Little Bit Alps: The Thornberrys are in the Alps of Switzerland to film ibexes in rutting season, and will be staying with a colleague in the meantime. There, Eliza is too afraid to admit she doesn't know how to snowboard while also trying to help an ibex too scared to stand up to a rival male.
  37. Pack Of Thornberrys: The Thornberrys are in Yellowstone National Park in the United States to film gray wolves. But while there, Eliza and Debbie's sibling rivalry gets so fierce that Debbie decides to apply to a local boarding school so she can get away from her sister for good.

    Season 3 

  1. Dragon Me Along: The Thornberrys are in China near its famous Great Wall, where Eliza encounters two caged pandas and tries to free them in fear they are being poached while Nigel and Marianne prove to be a little too enthusiastic about helping Debbie write an essay for school.
  2. Time Flies: The Thornberrys are in the Florida Everglades to film the endangered snail kite, but it's also Nigel's birthday. So while Nigel and Marianne are out filming, Eliza and Debbie explore the swamp on their own, only to lose their father's birthday gift to an American alligator.
  3. Horse Sense: The Thornberrys are in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia to see the Naadam Festival. There, Eliza enters a horse race where she hopes to ride a Przewalski's horse, Donnie becomes a Mongolian wrestling champion, and Debbie joins an archery competition to win some new clothes.
  4. Tyler Tucker, I Presume: Eliza's cousin Tyler comes to stay with the Thornberrys for the summer while they are in the Congo to film the African clawless otter. As they sail down the Congo River in search of their quarry, Tyler quickly learns that he is woefully unprepared to face the dangers the Thornberrys encounter every day.
  5. Critical Masai: Eliza is reunited with her old Maasai friends when the Thornberrys are in Kenya to film a baby bushbuck. However, with Tyler joining her this time, Eliza and her friends engage in a competition to see who is the bravest, only to find themselves truly tested when a wildfire stikes.
  6. Queen of Denial: The Thornberrys are in Egypt to film the caracal, where Eliza, Darwin, and Tyler stumble into an ancient Egyptian tomb and have to work together to escape its countless booby traps, while Debbie becomes convinced that she is descended from Cleopatra.
  7. Island Trade: Eliza, Debbie, and Tyler do some bartering in the bazaars on Zanzibar while Nigel and Marianne go to Ngorongoro Crater to do some filming. But when Tyler accidentally gives away the comvee, the three of them must get it back before Nigel and Marianne return and the merchant leaves Zanzibar with the vehicle.
  8. Birthday Quake: Tyler's thirteenth birthday and last day with the Thornberrys are coming up while the family is near Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya. While Nigel prepares to pick up Tyler's parents (Marianne's sister and brother-in-law), Eliza meets up with Rebecca's herd again, only to leave Tyler out of everything she does.
  9. The Legend of Ha Long Bay: The Thornberrys are at northern Vietnam's Ha Long Bay to film manta rays. While Marianne and Debbie explore the local towns and find them strangely empty, Eliza helps Nigel with filming, only to see what she believes to be a legendary sea dragon said to live in the bay.
  10. Spirited Away: The Thornberrys are in Oaxaca, Mexico to do a documentary on El Dia de Los Muertos, where Eliza hopes to see a ghost and Debbie accidentally loses an important ring. As Debbie and Eliza go out to get the ring back, Eliza finds herself being assisted by a mysterious woman.
  11. A Family Tradition: Grandma Sophie asks for the Thornberrys to give up their filming fossas in Madagascar and come back to America for Thanksgiving. However, Nigel and Marianne decide to just send an eager Debbie and Eliza back so they can complete their work, but chaos ensues when the girls change their minds at the last minute.
  12. Happy Old Year: The Thornberrys are in Quito, Eucador, where they are preparing for the local New Year's Eve celebrations. However, Debbie begins drifting away even further from the family when she becomes enamored with the lifestyle of a couple of eccentric volcano chasers named Mitzi and Merrick Dash.
  13. Happy Campers: The Thornberrys are going to Bhutan to film black-necked cranes, but difficulties in entering the country mean only Marianne and Debbie can go in while the rest of the family has to stay out. However, not even that will stop Eliza from crossing national borders so she can see the cranes in person.
  14. All Work and No Play: The Thornberrys are in Siberia near lake Baikal, where Nigel and Marianne set out to film the Siberian lynx. This leaves Debbie and Eliza on chore duty, but both girls decide to ignore their responsibilities to have some fun, which proves disastrous when a huge storm strikes.
  15. New Territory: While heading for Kakadu National Park in Australia, the Thornberrys meet a family named the Gibsons. While Nigel and Marianne play the Gibsons in a very competitive board game, Eliza befriends their daughter Bethany but has difficulty treating her as a normal kid because she is in a wheelchair from cerebral palsy.
  16. Operation Valentine: It's Valentine's Day, and the Thornberrys are in the Australian outback. But emergency strikes the family when Eliza suddenly comes down with appendicitis, meaning the family has to rush her to the nearest hopsital in Alice Springs, which is easier said than done.
  17. Hello, Dolphin!: The Thornberrys are at Shark Bay in Australia, where Nigel and the shark-fearing Marianne have to film tiger sharks. In the meantime, Debbie's long-distance boyfriend breaks up with her, and Eliza tries to cheer her up by taking her swimming with dolphins.
  18. April Fool's Day: It's April Fool's Day, and the Thornberrys and Tyler are in Botswana's Okavango Delta. There, Tyler and Eliza engage in a prank war, while Marianne prepares a prank of her own on the two kids involving the mythic Kongamato, only for things to get out of hand.
  19. Gem of a Mom: Mother's Day arrives while the Thornberrys are in the Karakoram Mountains of Pakistan, and Debbie and Eliza compete to get Marianne the best present they can. To this end, both decide to scale the mountains in search of some valuable gemstones.
  20. The Anniversary: Grandma Sophie and Grandpa Frank come to Japan to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary with the Thornberrys who are at Mount Fuji to film the Asian black bear. There, Grandpa Frank sets out on a hike up Mount Fuji with Eliza to prove to the family that his aging body means nothing to him.

    Season 4 

With the exception of "The Origin of Donnie", all of the episodes in this season are production leftovers from the third season.

  1. The Origin of Donnie: In this 4-part TV movie special, the Thornberrys prepare for Donnie's "birthday" (the day the found him) while in Borneo to film orangutans. But when Donnie suddenly leaves the family and wanders into the jungle in search of something, everyone heads out to find him, only to discover the whereabouts of his parents and why he joined the family.
  2. The Trouble With Darwin: The Thornberrys are in Tanzania to attend the opening of a chimpanzee sanctuary by Jane Goodall (guest starring as herself). While Eliza is ecstatic to meet one of her idols, she becomes deeply hurt when Dr. Goodall expresses deep disapproval of her keeping Darwin as a pet. Meanwhile, Debbie is accidentally hired to take care of baby chimps.
  3. Hot Air: The Thornberrys come to New Zealand to film tuataras and stay at a Maori village. There, Eliza has a fallout with Darwin and decides to befriend a common brushtail possum instead, while Debbie tries to impress a Maori boy by pretending that she doesn't find her family annoying or crazy in the slightest.

    Season 5 

All of these episodes are set after The Wild Thornberrys Movie, with the exceptions of "Look Who's Squawking" and "Sir Nigel" (the latter of which is actually the prequel to the movie, while the former is a leftover from the third season's production cycle).

  1. The Wild Snob-Berry: A young teen pop star named Shane G. comes to stay with the Thornberrys while they are at Denali National Park in Alaska as part of a project between him and the Foundation to promote awareness for protecting wildlife. However, he soon proves to be rather daft when it comes to interacting with wild animals.
  2. Ice Follies: At Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, Eliza and Debbie both begin squabbling with each other over Shane due to their feelings for him. So while Nigel and Marianne set out to film the blue glacier bear, Eliza takes Shane with her to explore the seacoast and its glaciers, only to run into serious trouble.
  3. Fool's Gold: The Thornberrys are at Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve in Alaska, where Eliza hopes to take Shane with her to an abandoned mine filled with pyrite. However, Shane is also busy helping Debbie with her abstract art project, causing Eliza to become jealous.
  4. Clash and Learn: Eliza introduces Shane to an Inuit friend named Kit when the Thornberrys are at Skagway, Alaska. While Kit is initially unsure of what to think of the cool and handsome young musician, he soon becomes fast friends with Shane, which causes Eliza to feel left out - much like how Darwin's been feeling recently.
  5. Sir Nigel: In this 2-part episode, Nigel is about to receive knighthood, so the Thornberrys come to Britain, where they stay with his upper-class parents, Cordelia and Colonel Radcliffe. However, Cordelia wants her son accept a professorship at Oxford so the family may settle down instead of filming golden eagles in Scotland - a prospect that deeply upsets Eliza.
  6. Look Who's Squawking: Eliza begins practicing for her dream job as a veterinarian while the Thornberrys are in Antarctica to film emperor penguins, so she tries to assist what she believes to be a wounded penguin, only to discover that she has made matters worse by separating the penguin from her mate and egg.
  7. Eliza Unplugged: Shane prepares to head back to California while the Thornberrys are at Behm Canal in Alaska to attend a Tlingit potlatch ceremony. As Marianne begins to fear that her daughters are becoming distant from her, Eliza begins to work up the courage to finally admit her feelings for Shane to him.

    Movies 

These movies are set between the fourth and fifth seasons of the series.

  1. The Wild Thornberrys Movie: While in Kenya, a cheetah cub named Tally that Eliza befriended is kidnapped by poachers. However, her attempt to save the cub prompts Cordelia to convince Nigel and Marianne to send Eliza to a British boarding school while they head for the Congo to film forest elephants converging at Tempo Valley during an eclipse. Wracked with guilt by her failure to save Tally, Eliza instead leaves boarding school and heads back to Africa, where she, Darwin, and Donnie continue to seek Tally, only to discover a terrible scheme to slaughter the elephants of Tempo Valley while Cordelia, Colonel Radcliffe, and Debbie learn of Eliza's escape and search for her.
  2. Rugrats Go Wild!: In this crossover, the cast of Rugrats are shipwrecked on an island in Southeast Asia after a cruise trip goes terribly wrong. While their parents argue over what to do, the babies head into the jungle in search of Tommy's hero Nigel Thornberry - and it happens to be that the Thornberrys are on the very same island in search of the clouded leopard. However, Nigel suffers from amnesia, causing him to mentally revert to an infant when the babies find him. And meanwhile, Eliza and Darwin run into Spike, who is also searching for the babies and agree to help him... all while the clouded leopard Siri also hunts for the babies.


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