A yellow fish with large green fins swims in bright blue water.

It says,
BLOOP, BLOOP, BLOOP,
BLOOP, BLOOP

A brown monkey with beige hair bounces up and down.

It says,
OOH, OOH, OOH, OOH, OOH

A zebra runs while a pink and yellow snake slithers with a knot tied in its body and an elephant sings out of its trunk. The eyes on the feathers of a peacock blink. A pig holds a white umbrella.

The Animanimals march one by one across the orange ground. The pig sits on the elephant’s back.

The Anianimals sing,
ANIMANIMALS
ANIMANIMALS
ANIMANIMALS
ANIMANIMALS
ANIMANIMALS
ANIMANIMALS

A large cloud shakes. The other Animanimals look surprised.

The cloud sings,
ANIMANIMALS

The Animanimals say, HUH?

A sheep pokes its head and legs out of its fluffy white wool.

The sheep sings,
ANIMANIMALS

The rest of the Animanimals smile.

They sing,
ANIMANIMALS

(Trumpeting)

The Animanimals sing,
ANIMANIMALS

The pig floats down to the ground with its umbrella.

The title reads, “Animanimals. By Julia Cocker”.

(Meowing)

The episode title reads, “Beaver”.

(Exclaims)

A grey mouse wearing a blue hat steers a large wooden ship on the water. It looks through its telescope and notices a brown beaver on an island filled with tree stumps.

The mouse says,
OH!
HM?
OH.
HMM!

The mouse looks through the telescope again. It sees the beaver waving a white flag.

(Boat creaking)

(Grumbling)

The beaver eats the wooden stick attached to the flag.

(Sighs)

The mouse says, OH!

The beaver notices the mouse’s ship.

(Exclaiming)

The beaver leaps up and waves to the mouse.

The beaver shouts, WOO-HOO!

The mouse steers the ship toward the island.

It says,
HM.
HM-HM.

(Grunting)

The mouse lands on the shore and jumps onto the bow of the ship.

(Exclaiming)

(Greeting)

(Grunts)

The beaver leaps onto the ship with the mouse.

(Indistinct)

The mouse sets sail across the water.

(Sipping loudly)

The mouse gives the beaver a white mug with a heart on it. The beaver sips from the mug and gives it back to the mouse.

(Indistinct)

The beaver’s stomach rumbles.

It says, HUH?

The mouse says, OH!

(Glass shattering)

The mouse drops the mug.

It says, WAIT A MINUTE!

The mouse runs across the deck of the ship. It returns to the beaver carrying a green apple.

The mouse says, DA!

(Sniffing)

(Retches)

The beaver smells the apple and looks sick.

The mouse says,
HUH?
HM.

It drops the apple and runs across the deck again. The mouse returns with a pot and a wooden spoon.

It says, TA-DA!

(Exclaims)

The beaver eats the wooden spoon.

(Chomping)

The mouse says, OH.

(Sniffing)

(Exclaims)

The beaver sniffs the pot and looks unhappy.

The mouse runs into the hull of the ship. The beaver looks around at the wooden deck.

It says, OH!

(Sniffing)

The beaver smells the railing of the ship.

It says, MM!

The mouse walks out of the hull holding a wooden bowl.

It says, OH!

(Munching)

The mouse watches the beaver take a large bite out of the railing.

(Exclaiming)

The beaver has a wide smile as it walks over to the mouse and takes the bowl.

(Chomping, munches)

The beaver empties out the green soup inside and eats the bowl.

The mouse looks angry.

It says, HEY!

(Grunting)

The mouse thinks.

It says, HM.

(Exclaims)

(Indistinct)

The mouse grabs the beaver’s hand and walks back to the bow of the ship. The mouse pulls out its telescope.

(Chomping)

The beaver takes a bite out of the ship’s steering wheel.

The mouse says,
HUH?!
AH!

(Chomping)

The beaver takes a bite out of the ship’s mast.

The mouse says, HM!

The beaver continues to eat the wooden ship.

(Grunts)

(Yelling)

The mouse runs over to the beaver and wags its finger.

The beaver says, OH?

(Yelling)

The beaver says, HM!

The mouse looks furious. It rests its hands on its hips.

(Sobbing)

The beaver looks upset. It jumps into the hull.

(Exhales)

The mouse looks pleased.

(Humming)

(Chomping)

The beaver starts to eat the ship from the bottom up.

The mouse shouts, AH!

(Chomping)

The ship begins to sink.

The beaver says, AH!

(Yelling)

The mouse climbs to the top of the mast. The mast leans to one side and falls into the water. The mouse has trouble swimming.

The beaver says, OH?

It pushes a wooden raft made out of the ship to the drowning mouse. The mouse grabs onto the raft.

(Exclaiming)

The beaver’s stomach rumbles.

It says, OH.

The mouse says, OH! OH!

The beaver begins to eat the raft.

(Exclaiming)

The beaver eats the last part of the raft. The mouse is flung into the air.

It screams, AH!

(Exclaiming)

The mouse lands on the beaver’s back.

The mouse says, OH?

The beaver swims through the water with the mouse on its back.

(Exhales)

The mouse looks through its telescope at an island filled with tall trees.

It says, HUH?

The beaver replies, HA!

It reaches the island. The mouse jumps off the beaver’s back and lays on the ground. The mouse smiles while it rubs the dirt.

The beaver runs past the mouse.

The mouse says, HM?

(Chomping greedily)

The beaver eats the trees while the mouse looks up at the sun through the telescope.

The mouse says, OH.

(Chuckles)

(Chomping)

(Sighing)

The mouse smiles while the beaver continues to eat.

Credits read, “Producer: Thomas Meyer-Hermann. Design: Julia Ocker. Script & Direction: Julia Ocker. Animatic: Julia Ocker. Story Advisor: Andreas Hykade. Copyright Studio Film Board. Kika / ARD & ZDF - SWR 2022”.