The Bananas buy an aquarium from Charlie for a fish called Twinkle to live in, but she is not very happy, and when she sees a picture of the beach she tries to swim towards it. Charlie helps the Bananas work out that Twinkle is homesick, so they take her back to the beach and release her into the sea.
The Bananas are fooled into thinking that Rat is a real prince. They organise a special lunch for him and invite everyone along. Excited by the prospect of this, Rat goes along with the charade, until he falls asleep and his false beard falls off! To get him back they organise a special welcoming ceremony - where he is greeted with some mud pies!
The Bananas ask Topsy to join their racing team, but she is very scared of heights and they're going to be racing down Bernard's very steep hill. However, Topsy eventually agrees, and she has a great time! She loves going fast! The teams race again and the Bananas win again, even if it was a very bumpy ride.
After the Bananas pick a bunch of flowers to take home, all of their friends want some too and, not wishing to upset anyone, the Bananas go and pick bunches for everyone. Eventually there are no flowers left in the field, which makes the bees very unhappy and they swarm into town. What will the Bananas do now?
B1 and B2 both wake up thinking it's a lovely day! But as soon as the Bananas get outside they find that it is blowing a gale, there is rubbish everywhere and all of their friends are having a terrible time. The Bananas decide they should try to cheer everyone up, but this proves to be more problematic than they first thought...
Topsy’s having a 'Shake and Bake' party and the Bananas have made her favourite apple pie. But Pedro the pig loves apple pie too and when he sees it cooling on the Bananas' window sill, he can't resist having just a little taste. Before he knows it though, he's eaten the whole thing! Pedro tries replacing the apple pie with a mud pie but one taste and the Bananas know it's not the real thing. Now they have to find out who ate their pie and make another one in time for the party.
Everyone in Cuddlestown is getting ready to celebrate Chinese New Year. But when Amy goes down to the lake to hang up some lanterns for their parade, she is alarmed to see a dragon appear through the mist. She quickly runs back to town to warn everyone but is upset to find that no one believes her. The Bananas feel sorry for Amy. They don’t really believe in dragons either but they don't like to see their friend upset. They decide there’s only one thing to do. They'll try to find out just what sort of dragon Amy really saw.
The Bananas arrive back home from a big holiday and decide to hold a party so they can see all their friends again and show them their photos. But when they go around town to issue the invitations, they discover that everyone’s too busy to listen to them. They're all preparing for the Cuddlestown Cake Competition. Not only that, but the competition is planned to take place at the same time as the Bananas' party - so no-one will be able to come. The Bananas are very disappointed but agree to go along to the cake competition instead. When they arrive at the competition though, they get a very big surprise!
The Bananas have to deliver a package to Amy. But as they carefully carry it to her house, they trip over and the package flies into the air and hits the ground with a bang. Oh no! Have they broken what's inside the package? They give the package a shake and hear something rattle about inside. Oh yes, they have broken it! The Bananas don't want to tell Amy about this. They decide to quickly go home and repair whatever it is that's inside the package. But will the Bananas be able to do it before Amy finds out what's happened?
When the Bananas accidentally put too much soap in their washing machine, it looks like Cuddlestown will be overrun by millions of soap bubbles. The situation becomes even worse when Rat gets too close to one giant bubble and gets trapped inside it and starts to float away. Now the Bananas have to find a way to pop the bubble and set Rat free. But they have to act fast – otherwise poor Rat might float away forever!
The Bananas help Rat put up a new set of shelves in his shop. But the shelves collapse and Rat's shop is suddenly a big mess. Now Rat has to find somewhere else to stay while his own place gets repaired. The Bananas suggest Rat stays with them – and he immediately accepts. Rat soon finds life at the Bananas' house is quite delightful, especially as the Bananas are happy to do anything he asks for. It's a dream come true. The Teddies begin to think that Rat will never go back to his own place, even after his shop is repaired. In fact, it looks like Rat will stay so long with the Bananas that they joke he might even turn into a Banana himself. That thought gives them an idea. What if Rat really did become a Banana!?
The Bananas like the idea of being Rescue Bananas and search for more rescues to do. But pretty soon, it's the Bananas themselves who need rescuing.
How can B1 and B2 find and keep presents a surprise from each other when they always do everything together? Perhaps the Teddies can help?
The Bananas go down to the beach for a sail in Bernard's boat. Skid the dolphin is there too and they have such fun playing games that no one notices until it's too late that the tide has gone out and Skid has become trapped in the shallow water. How can they get Skid get back to the ocean?
When Morgan's yummy, freshly baked muffins suddenly disappear, everyone blames Pedro. It's well-known that the naughty pig can't resist food, so when Pedro swears he is innocent, only the Bananas believe him. But if Pedro didn't take the muffins, who did?
Rat decides to make a TV news show about Cuddlestown with the Bananas as his cameramen. The only problem is that there is nothing to report, so Rat makes up a story about an alien - which everyone thinks is true!
B1 and B2 take the Teddies on a trip to a mountain campsite, but when Rat hears a huge storm is heading their way, he realises he must go to their rescue. Rat tricks the Bananas into buying a lot of old camping gear he doesn't want but then finds he's actually out-tricked himself.
The Bananas try to teach Topsy how to ride a bike, but she falls off and gets upset. She tells everyone that bike riding is silly and that she does not want to learn anymore, but the Bananas and the Teddies come up with a great way to get her back on her bike. The Bananas discover that helping Topsy learn to ride a bike is harder than they thought.
Camembert tells the Bananas about her dream to travel to the pyramids and ride on a camel. She does not think her dream will come true because the pyramids are very far away, so B1 and B2 find a way to bring the pyramids to Cuddlestown.
It's April Fools Day and tricky Rat sets out to prove he's the trickiest trickster of all. Rat plays a trick on the Bananas and Teddies. He thinks they'll now try to play a trick back on him and plans to outsmart them.
The Bananas give Lulu a music box which plays a tinkly tune as a miniature ballerina spins around. Lulu is delighted - but then the music box breaks down The Bananas try to fix it.
The Bananas' favourite pot for making jelly is broken. They need help to repair it and they know who can help them - Charlie the inventor. As they wait for Charlie to repair the pot, the curious Bananas examine one of his new inventions that looks like a small spaceship. The Bananas dream of travelling in a rocket ship and exploring outer space almost comes true.
Rat puts up a big screen in the park - but then he realises he doesn't have a movie to show. The Bananas offer to make a movie for him and enlist the help of the Teddies. With Lulu directing and the Bananas and Pedro acting, they finish shooting their movie - only to discover there is no tape in the camera!
It's the Cuddlestown Jam Jamboree. But when the jam judge catches a cold, he loses his sense of taste and so has to retire from judging. The Bananas jump in and take his place. Alas, in their eagerness to help, the Bananas spill all the different jams and they get mixed together. What can be done to save the jamboree?
Rat dreams of a world where everything is made of cheese but when his dream seems to come true, he starts to have second thoughts. Rat becomes the Prince of Cheese. But he soon discovers that a world of nothing but cheese is not as good as he thought it would be.
The Bananas hear the strangest sounds during the night. The next day they search for what made the noise. The trail of clues keeps coming back to the Teddies, but they deny anything to do with it. Are the Teddies keeping a secret?
It's Beach Carnival Day at Cuddlestown and Rat is determined to win a prize - no matter what sneaky tricks he has to use. The Bananas are on lifeguard duty to make sure everyone stays safe. Rat is determined to win at least one of the prizes on offer, but the Bananas always manage to come out on top.
The Bananas get into trouble when they realise that they've promised to play different games with different friends all at the same time. Amy loves football and wants to play it all the time. But everyone else is tired of football and wants to play other games. Amy decides that if they don't want to play football, she'll just play by herself. She learns that playing football by herself just isn't much fun.
When Rat promises the Bananas he can make their pumpkin grow big in time for Halloween - you can be sure he's about to play one of his sneaky tricks again. Rat plays a trick on the Bananas when they want their pumpkin to grow faster so they can make their Jack O Lantern for the Teddies' Halloween party.
When the Bananas discover a talking bird in the forest, they have trouble proving to the Teddies that it's real. The Bananas are amazed that Billy the parrot can talk, but each time the Bananas they bring the Teddies to see him, he disappears.
The Cuddlestown Band sounds great except for one small thing - none of the musicians can play in time together!
Morgan wants to be like his hero, the ever-helpful Super Bear. But the more he tries to do the things Super Bear does, the more things seem to go wrong.
The Bananas explore their town of Cuddlestown with their best friends Rat In A Hat and teddies - Lulu, Morgan and Amy. Rat is telling fibs again. But he comes unstuck when he boasts to the Bananas that he's a great surfer. The word soon spreads and before he can say "cheese and whiskers", everyone in Cuddlestown is on the beach to watch him do his surfing tricks. He will need a miracle to transform himself into a water rat. How is Rat going to get out of this one?
The Bananas love the nursery rhyme 'Hey Diddle Diddle' and think a cow really did jump over the moon. So when the Teddies tell them that it's only a story, they try all sorts of ways to prove that it's possible, but nothing they try works. Can their friend Camembert the cow help?
The Bananas are excited because the Teddies are coming round to read them a story about fairies. But what are those strange sounds in the house, and why are the pictures moving, the lights flickering and the windows slamming shut? When Rat and the Teddies arrive, Rat claims to know the cause of all these strange goings-on. It must be fairies!
The Bananas are unhappy that Amy can't come out to play because she has so many jobs to do. But when they try to help her, they end up making a bigger mess and creating even more jobs for her. The other Teddies think that if they all pitch in and work together, they can get the jobs done faster and everyone will have time to play. Can they make it work?
Amy's favourite story is Goldilocks and the Three Bears, so when a mysterious stranger sneaks into the Teddies' house and eats all Amy's porridge, she thinks she knows who was reponsible. But does Goldilocks really exist? The Bananas decide to find out. Disguising themselves as bears, they try to track down the mystery porridge-eater. Who could it be?
The Bananas feel sad about letting Bernard down. If only they could make it up to him by finding the Muckle Bird themselves. But how?
The Bananas don't want to hurt Topsy's feelings, so they come up with the pyjamarific idea of hiding the soap in their home. But soon they run out of places to hide it. And here comes Topsy with even more soap...
Then they spy Rat secretly taking the honeycakes out of the well and realise they've been tricked.
After they find a cocoon, Lulu explains to B1 and B2 that Curly has turned in to a butterfly! Down by the river they find hundreds of butterflies, is one of them Curly?
Driven crazy by Rat's unwanted advice, everyone wants him to become a shopkeeper again. Can the Bananans make it happen?
But washing becomes a bit difficult because the turtles have to live in the bath, then one day they just disappear. Where could they have gone?
Can the Bananas repair the damage before the Teddies return?
When the Bananas find an old beach hut behind a sand dune, they set about repairing it under Rat's supervision. What could possibly go wrong?
Rat and the Teddies are collecting toys to give to some children who don't have any. When the Bananas hear about this they want to donate one of their toys, but they have a great deal of difficulty choosing which one. What are they going to do?
Morgan is impatient to grow up - he wants to be tall and he wants it now! He asks Charlie to invent something that will make him grow, but none of his ideas work. However, when the Bananas need help to rescue a small bird, Morgan discovers it is not so bad being small.
After Rat nearly runs in to the Teddies in his car, he decides to make a pedestrian crossing. To make sure everybody uses it, he appoints the Bananas as monitors. But they soon find out that their job is not as easy as they thought...
Morgan is going to be the DJ at Camembert's birthday party. But when he goes to show the Bananas how he'll do it, he plugs in so many lights and speakers that he accidentally blows all the power in Cuddlestown. Now it's up to the Bananas to show Camembert she can still have a perfect party even without any electricity.
It's story night and the Teddies are going to read 'The Hare and the Tortoise' to the Bananas and Rat. Rat has never heard the story before, so Tolstoy the turtle tells him. Rat can't believe that a slow tortoise could ever beat a speedy hare. In fact, Rat thinks the idea is so silly that he'll even prove it to everyone, so he challenges Tolstoy to a race!
The Bananas need a work table to make a present for Topsy, and spot just what they need in front of the Teddies' house. But Rat asks to borrow it from them, so when the Teddies tell the Bananas that they need the table back urgently, B1 and B2 must find it quickly. But Rat has lent it to someone else and everyone has borrowed that old table today.
When Amy overhears Lulu and Morgan saying that they have to get her out of the Teddy home, she decides to leave Cuddlestown. When the Bananas find out, they volunteer to go with her to stop her from being lonely. And then Bernard, Topsy and Rat and everyone else in Cuddlestown decides to go with them too! But is it all a great big, silly misunderstanding?
Everyone thinks Rat is a brilliant gardener when they see a beautiful flower they think he has grown. They promise him so many honey cakes if he makes their gardens beautiful too that he doesn't tell them that it was the Bananas who grew it. Of course, gardening is hard work, so he tricks the Bananas into doing it all. But his cunning plan backfires.
Rat has a lot of tennis balls that he can't sell, so he offers anybody who buys one the chance to win a trip to an amusement park called 'Fun World'. The winners are the Bananas, but B1 and B2 are in for a big disappointment. Fun World is just a few ricketty old rides in Rat's backyard. Rat has tricked them again, but perhaps there's a way to trick him back.
Phew! It's very, very smelly and there's no sign of any elephants! So the Bananas and the Teddies decide to trick Rat back. As the Rat says that "elephant magic" can attract an elephant, then an elephant he will get!
Episode 105: The Rainmakers - Monday, May 13 at 5.45pm on ABC4Kids The days have been very hot and dry in Cuddlestown and everyone wants some rain. So the Bananas decide to visit Charlie to see if he might have an invention that could help. Luckily, Charlie has the very thing - a cloud maker - and makes a little cloud that rains! Banana-tastic! However, the cloud likes the Bananas so much that it won't leave them alone and keeps raining on them! As much as the Bananas like their newfound friend, they realise that they can't live in the rain all the time and go back to see Charlie.
Episode 106: The Snippys Are Coming - Tuesday, May 14 at 5.45pm on ABC4Kids The Bananas find Bernard down at the lake and he tells them that he's waiting for the Snippys to arrive. They're coming to "take over the lake" and "eat everything they can". The Bananas think this sounds very scary and rush back to Cuddlestown to tell everyone else about this alarming news. Naturally everyone is worried and they decide they need to protect themselves from the Snippys, even though they don't know what they are. They decide to all stay in Rat's shop and put a big fence of sandbags around it so the Snippys can't get in.
Rat tells everyone that he wants to change his life by enrolling at a clown school before travelling the world bringing happiness wherever he goes. However, the Bananas and the Teddies do not want their friend to leave, so they come up with a plan to make his dream come true without leaving Cuddlestown.
The Bananas discover that Morgan wants to be a magician like his hero, Kevin the Incredible. He is very good at magic but is too shy to perform in front of other people. The Bananas, however, have an idea that they think might help. The Bananas decide to help Morgan achieve his dream of becoming a magician.
The Bananas have to find a new way to 'talk' to their friends when they lose their voices after yelling too loudly in an echoey cave.
Pedro the pig is tired of the same old mud every day and tries to find some new mud to play in. Before long, he gets himself into a very sticky situation.
The Bananas think that they have found the egg of a real, live dragon. They cannot wait for it to hatch and eagerly look forward to having their very own pet dragon to play with. But has someone played a trick on them?
The Bananas are amazed to see a honey cake floating in a jar! They are so excited by this that they accidentally knock the jar over and the honey cake escapes and splits in two. As they try to catch the pieces, the Bananas accidentally swallow them. Then they start to float too! Will Charlie and the Teddies be able to get them back on the ground safely?
After helping Charlie, the Bananas tell him that they wish they could be inventors like him. Charlie is delighted to hear this and suggests that they come up with some objects. But their ideas for skate mops and gift-wrapping robots fall flat, making them feel like failures. But the Teddies show them that they are actually great inventors!
Rat gets the Bananas, the Teddies and Topsy to give him some of the cherries that they have picked from Bernard's tree, promising to pick some for them tomorrow. Rat thinks that he has found a great way of getting things from others without doing any work. But when everyone asks him to repay what he owes, Rat gets a very big shock.
The Bananas make a paper aeroplane that flies all over Cuddlestown, causing trouble wherever it goes. Rat suggests that if they had a play zone there would be no more problems. But then the Teddies, Rat and Bernard realise that if B1 and B2 just stay in their play zone, they will hardly get to see their friends at all.
While playing on the beach, Rat and Topsy find a pretty shell. When they argue over who should keep it, the Bananas suggest that they should share it, taking it in turns to look after it. But then the shell disapppears and they blame each other. Where did the shell go? And can the Bananas get Rat and Topsy to be friends again?
Morgan wants a book about his hero, 'Super Bear', but he does not have enough honey cakes to buy one. The Bananas have an idea that might help.
When Charlie sees the Bananas struggling to carry some groceries home, he decides to help them out. He invents a car for them - the Banana Buggy!
The Bananas, Morgan and Rat try to win a competition.
Dolly and Camembert have an argument over hats!
The Bananas have a busy day ahead. They've got things to do for Rat, then Bernard, then the Teddies. They wonder how they can do everything in one day. There's only one answer - they'll have to do everything fast.
Rat loves his collection of old cheese but everyone else in Cuddlestown finds it very smelly. Rat can't sense the problem. He thinks his old cheese has a beautiful perfume.
One morning, Rat is admiring a picture of the famous painting 'The Mona Rata'. The Bananas come along and say they think the painting is Banana-tastic. They wish they could paint like that.
The Bananas are very excited. They're going to join Pedro and play the piggies in a play of 'The Three Little Pigs'. Everyone in Cuddlestown will be coming to see it. It's going to be Pyjama-riffic!
Rat is in the park one morning when a jelly drops down and hits him on the head. Then another! And another! When Rat looks around he sees he's near the fountain and that's where the jellies must be coming from. Amazing!
The Bananas are riding their scooter through Cuddlestown and pull up at Rat's shop. Rat inspects the scooter and tells them that it looks very shabby. The Bananas are unhappy. They wish their scooter could look better.
Includes 8 episodes from Season 1, (2011-2012). When the Bananas prepare to celebrate We Love Cuddlestown Day, they discover that the decorations for their house have mysteriously vanished. Who would have taken them? It’s Detective Bananas time! In other episodes Morgan thinks he’s a bad luck bear, the Bananas go on lifeguard duty at the Cuddlestown Beach Carnival, and Rat in a Hat pretends he’s a great surfer. Morgan wants to be like his hero – Super Bear – but discovers being a super hero isn’t as easy as it looks. In other episodes, Rat in a Hat dreams of a world where everything is made of cheese, the Teddies host a Halloween party, and the Bananas discover a talking bird in the forest.
When lots-of-holes suddenly appear in the park, the Banana Detectives set-out to find what caused them. In other episodes Charlie invents a car for the Bananas, Amy has trouble writing a letter to her pen-pal and when the Bananas message mixed-up it sends everyone in Cuddlestown into a panic!