Travis and the Tropical Fruits is the fifth episode of the twelfth series.
Plot
Mr. Beasley is going into business growing tropical fruits, but he needs to research it before he starts growing as not all fruits grow in a cool climate. Wendy helps him look on the internet and they find out that the best way to grow pineapples is to build a pit heated by… horse manure! Also known as… horse poop.
Characters
- Bob
- Wendy
- Scoop
- Muck
- Dizzy
- Travis
- Spud
- Mr. Bernard Bentley
- Mrs. Barbara Bentley
- Mr. Beasley
- Angelo Sabatini
- Sophia Sabatini
- Farmer Pickles (mentioned)
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Voice Cast
United Kingdom & Australia
- Neil Morrissey as Bob, Farmer Pickles & Angelo Sabatini
- Rob Rackstraw as Scoop, Muck, Travis, Spud, Mr. Bentley & Mr. Beasley
- Kate Harbour as Wendy, Dizzy, Mrs. Barbara Bentley & Sophia Sabatini
North America
- Greg Proops as Bob & Mr. Beasley
- Lorelei King as Wendy, Mrs. Barbara Bentley & Sophia Sabatini
- Alan Marriott as Scoop & Travis
- Lachele Carl as Muck
- Maria Darling as Dizzy
- Rob Rackstraw as Spud & Mr. Bentley
- Vincent Marzello as Farmer Pickles & Angelo Sabatini
Locations
- Sunflower Valley
- Bobsville (mentioned)
- Farmer Pickles' Farm (mentioned)
Trivia
- This episode marks the first appearance of Sophia Sabatini since Roley's Important Job (Season 9) and her first appearance in Project: Build It.
- Lofty and Roley do not appear in this episode.
- In the United States, this episode was skipped in the PBS Kids episode blocks due to the concept of horse manure (horse poop) being involved in the plot of the episode. The half-hour block episode "Valley Discoveries"[1] (that featured this episode) did air in Canada on Treehouse TV, and even aired regularly up to September 9, 2011, which was its last airing on the channel. The same half-hour block did also air in Latin America on Discovery Kids, dubbed in Spanish and Portuguese in Latin America and Brazil respectively.
- Because of this, Scoop the Teacher was also skipped in the PBS episode blocks due to not having a proper sister episode. However, the latter episode later aired on PBS Kids Sprout, and was later released on the Digital Download Let's Build!.
- Both episodes aired on Treehouse TV in Canada, thus confirming the existence of a US dub of this episode.
- This also marks the only episode of the series to be outright banned in the US, and the third to be censored.
- The US dub of this episode also premiered on PBS Kids Sprout in 2007, but it is currently unknown.
- For some reason, this episode was not released on any US DVD or digital release because the horse manure (or horse poop) idea was involved in its plot.
- Also, the Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese dubs of this episode and half-hour block did also air in Latin America and Brazil on Discovery Kids.
- Because not everyone has Sprout, which is a digital network, especially since analog television was still fairly common at the time, and of the fact this episode was skipped on PBS, this creates a continuity error as to why Mr. Beasley is suddenly running a tropical fruit business, which he was never running back in Bobsville. Further because of this, most American viewers second time seeing Mrs. Sabatini was Sir Muck.
- This is the first episode to feature a time skip through different seasonal months.
- This is the first episode whose US dub is completely lost, besides Spud's Cork Tree, Sumsy and the Beast, Tumbler and the Ice Rink and Spud the DJ.
- This episode was paired with Scoop the Teacher when it first premiered in Canada and Latin America.
References
In Other Languages
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | Tódor és a déligyümölcs | Travis and the Tropical Fruits |
| Russian | Тревис и тропические фрукты | Travis and the Tropical Fruits |
| Japanese | トラビスとパイナップル | Travis and Pineapple |
| Arabic | بناء مصفخ | Armored Building |
| Dutch | Hector en het Tropische Fruit | Travis and the Tropical Fruit |
| Welsh | Pinafal Perffaith | Perfect Pineapple |