The Sunfish ← Preceded by - "The Bluefin Tuna" - Followed by → The Blue Whale Rescue |
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| Airdate: | March 27th, 2023 |
| Written by: | Stephanie Simpson |
| Directed by: | Blair Simmons & Yuan Huabing |
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| Previous The Sunfish |
Next The Blue Whale Rescue |
The Bluefin Tuna is the first episode of Season 5 of Octonauts.
Summary[]
After an encounter with a school of migrating tuna, the Octonauts discover that one of the speedy fish, Tina, has been left behind. And she's injured! Poor Tina has a hook stuck in her mouth and is too weak to swim. After Peso tends to her wound, the Octonauts agree to help get her to the tuna spawning grounds. But they'll have to be quick: egg-laying season doesn't last long. Luckily, Tweak's latest gup, the Gup-R, is very fast! The Octonauts use it to tow Tina, but when the Gup-R's battery dies, how will they catch up to the rest of her school?
Synopsis[]
The Octonauts must help an endangered Atlantic Bluefin Tuna named Tina the Tuna out and make sure she can return back to her school in time to lay her eggs before the egg-laying-season is over.
Characters[]
- Captain Barnacles
- Kwazii
- Peso
- Shellington
- Dashi
- Professor Inkling
- Tweak
- Tunip
- Vegimals
- Tina the Tuna
- Bluefin Tuna School
- Tommy, Tony, Terry
- Blue whale
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Trivia[]
- This episode marks the debut of the Gup-R.
- Barnacles and Peso drive the Gup-R for the first time.
- This is the first episode that involves the topic of fishing with hooks and a reason why some marine animals are on the brink of extinction.
- This is the first appearance of a Blue whale pod in season 5.
- Strangely, even though if the octopod engines malfunctioned while the Octopod is speeding at its highest speed to catch up with the Blufin Tuna school, the Octopod in the past episodes was capable of reaching at high speeds without any engine problem, although Tweak said that the Octopod isn't built for going high speeds for very long periods, in some episodes, there was no problem with that.