Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
Episodes
The Flying Aces are back in Sunny Patch. The two dragonfly barnstormers, the king and queen of the sky, Roxie and Rocky perform their breathtaking air show. Dragon is especially enrapt. He wants to learn a thing or two about flying. Rocky takes Dragon under his wing. When he invites Dragon to come along with them and join their mini aces, Dragon asks Holley and Miss Spider. They give him a definitive “no.” He belongs with their family. But when they realize that Dragon has his heart set on it and that although they love him a ton, they can’t teach him how to be the best dragonfly he can be, they change their minds. Dragon is free to fly away. As Dragon is about to fly off for good, he has a change of heart. He realizes that for the time being he should be with the family that loves him the best. He’ll fly away some other day…
While out collecting nectar in the meadow Shimmer and Squirt come across a very cute tiny little caterpillar they name “Cookie.” Cookie is a Monarch Butterfly caterpillar and she eats her weight in food every day! The kids run themselves ragged trying to keep Cookie in milkweed. Just when it seems like they can’t take care of their guest any longer, Cookie spins her chrysalis and turns into a butterfly – right before the Spider families amazed eyes.
The Sunny Patch version of Mother’s Day is called “Bug Your Mom Day.” Each of Miss Spider’s kids wants to give their the mom the best gift. As they try to outdo each other they wind up making a gigantic card out of spider web. They over-decorate it with flowers, berries and eventually themselves, when they all get stuck to the giant card. Wiggle’s simple little offering – a self-chewed leaf card turns out to be the best gift. Meanwhile, Miss Spider learns the same lesson when she takes her mom, Betty Beetle, to the fanciest café in town – Le Beestro.
A Cloudy Day in Sunny Patch
Shimmer, Miss Spider’s adopted beetle daughter, has never had a hatchday party – a birthday party for bugs. Everyone wants her first one to be perfect, especially Shimmer. The hatchday girl wants a fun in the sun day at the Taddy Puddle. Everyone pitches in to set up elaborate decorations, games and a fancy hatchday cake. But a sudden rainstorm forces the party inside to the Cozy Hole, much to Shimmer’s chagrin. Nothing is the way she planned it. But she discovers that when your family and friends care about you, you can have fun even if things don’t go quite the way you expected.
Something's Stinky in Sunny Patch
There’s been a bark-lary in Sunny Patch! Someone has eaten the bark right off poor Mr. Mantis’ house. Unfortunately, Spiderus is convinced that he knows who the bark-lar is, and spreads a rumor around town falsely accusing Shimmer of the crime. Enter Stinky the Stinkbug private investigator, and mini sleuths Bounce and Squirt -- determined to prove their sister innocent! Together with Shimmer’s help, some good detective skills and a whole lot of gumption, the bugs get to the bottom of the mystery, clearing Shimmer’s name, while also proving just how mean and hurtful rumors can really be.
Nighttime is falling on Sunny Patch. Wiggle races home before the sun sets. This little spider is afraid of the dark. When it comes to the nightly bedtime routine, Wiggle stalls. He asks for an extra story. When Holley tucks him in bed Wiggle is suddenly thirsty. Then he has to go to the bathroom. He just can’t settle down. When he finally runs out of excuses it’s lights out. All the nighttime clicks and screeches and hoots give him the creeps. He dives into Miss Spider and Holley’s bed. Miss Spider immediately recognizes her little bugs nighttime fears. She suggests they take a moonlit “listening walk.” Once Wiggle puts a face to all the noises that give him the creeps he won’t be so scared anymore. At first Wiggle resists, but Miss Spider gently prods him. Squirt and Dragon and Bounce come along for the walk too. Wiggle and his siblings identify a whole slew of nighttime noises. Wiggle’s fears melt away and the listening walk turns into a magical nighttime adventure.
A big gust of wind blows a candy wrapper from the city into Sunny Patch. Inside is a street-wise cockroach named Sweetie. Squirt befriends her and is dazzled by her exotic bug tales of living in a trashcan and staying up all night. He tries to impress her by sneaking out of the Cozy Hole and showing her Sunny Patch after dark. But the sleepy little town can’t compete with the big city. To add to Squirt’s embarrassment he gets caught being out at night without his parent’s permission. But when it’s time for Sweetie to say good-bye, Squirt is surprised to discover that she was just as impressed by the small town charms of Sunny Patch – as he was by her urban sophistication. He learns that every place is special in its own way.
Uncle Gus and Miss Spider are giving the kids a star-gazing lesson, when they spy an extra twinkly star. Uncle Gus tells the impressionable kids it’s a wishing star. Squirt excitedly lists all the toys and treats he wishes he had. Suddenly a shooting star streaks across the sky. Uh-oh. Has Squirt over-wished the star right out of the sky? Next day the kids stumble across a shiny bottle cap and think it’s the fallen star. Their many attempts to hoist, fly and slingshot it back into the sky all fail. Squirt’s brothers and sisters make him feel like it’s his fault. So Squirt makes one last wish. That they all can be friends again. When Miss Spider and Gus explain that you can’t wish a star out of the sky, the kids make up with their brother. Guess Squirt’s wish really did come true!
When Squirt invites Shelley the snail on a bug scout nature hike, it slows the group down. Especially frustrated is the hyper-active Dragon. Soon he and the other bugs race far ahead of Shelley, Squirt and Miss Spider. Dragon and siblings are in such a hurry, they don’t pay attention to the natural landmarks around them and wind up getting lost in the scary Snakey Woods. By the time Miss Spider, Squirt and Shelley find them it’s dark. Fortunately, slow-moving Shelley notices the one thing that’ll lead them home – his snail trail that gleams in the moonlight
Bounce and Shimmer are planning to trade their homemade pies at the Sunny Patch Fair. Ned and Ted, the Red Ant brothers, have a better idea. They trade two magic beans for the Spider kids’ pies. Holley and Miss Spider are afraid that Bounce and Shimmer have been taken, but it turns out that beans do have special powers after all. After leading Bounce and Squirt on a wild chase through Sunny Patch, Taddy Puddle and the Snakey Woods, the bugs discover that they’ve traded for Mexican Jumping Beans. The little beans actually have a little moth inside of them. The Spider family reunites the Moths with their Uncle and enjoy a genuine Mexican Jumping Bean fiesta.
There’s a flea circus in Sunny Patch and the kids really want to go. However, they have been having a little bit of trouble getting along, so Holley and Miss Spider insist that they work their way up the “wishing web” if they want to catch the show. Shimmer, Pansy, Snowdrop, Wiggle and Spinner get to the top of the web with relative ease. Squirt, Bounce and Dragon have a harder time. When Squirt accidentally unravels Miss Spider’s weaving, it looks they’ll never get to the circus, but Bounce, Dragon and Squirt stick together and finally get their wish.
The Cosy Hole is abuzz! Each of the kids has something important to do today. Whether it’s Bounce’s first track meet or sailing on the Taddy Puddle, Miss Spider and Holley have their hands full! So when Holley takes a tumble, throwing out his cephalothorax, it’s up to Miss Spider to juggle everything -- a feat even for someone as multi-dexterous as a spider! With Bounce attached to several of her legs, terrified for his first big race, Miss Spider manages to drop each of the kids off so that they can sail, surf, play and run. However, Miss Spider eventually learns that no matter how much she wants to, she can’t be eight different places at once, and that eight hands aren’t always enough!
Miss Spider reads the children a bedtime story. In it, a bored King sends his Knights to bring back the mythical Marin Rose. The brave Knights, knowing the flower will die if picked, return with a dead stalk instead. When the King realizes how thoughtless his command was, the Knights bring him to visit the still-growing Rose. The next day, Shimmer catches Spiderus about to pick a rose for Spindella. Shimmer convinces him to give Spindella a gift of seeds for growing roses instead.
There is a honey shortage in Sunny Patch. When Ned and Ted, the ant brothers come knocking at the Cozy Hole to borrow some honey, Squirt and Bounce tell Miss Spider not to give them their last bit of honey. Miss Spider generously gives it to them anyway. They promise to return the favor once they find the “golden treasure.” Apparently there is an abandoned honeycomb somewhere in Sunny Patch. Squirt and Bounce take off on a treasure hunt that leads them to the big pine on the edge of the meadow. There they come across Spiderus who is stuck in pinesap. He begs them to help him; otherwise he’ll end up being stuck forever in fossilized amber. Although Bounce wants to keep looking for the treasure, Squirt convinces him that they have to be good to all bugs. Even Spiderus. The kids give up their dream of finding the treasure to help Spiderus. They get Dragon, Shimmer and Miss Spider to help. With some bug ingenuity and a little witch hazel to dissolve the pine pitch, they pull Spiderus out. After they get him out, Squirt and his family find out that Spiderus knew where the treasure was all along. He agrees to give them half—the smaller half.
The wind is raging outside, but everyone’s snug as a bug in the Cozy Hole. Everyone except Dragon and Squirt who are bickering over Dragon’s favorite toy -- when suddenly there’s an enormous T-H-U-M-P! from outside. The startled bugs venture out to see the wind has taken down a tree! There are cheers all around. “Happy Heartwood Day!” Miss Spider explains to the kids that when a tree falls the bugs spend the day celebrating all living things. It’s a day to show how much you care -- followed by a bug boogying, gift-sharing shindig. However, with seven brothers and sisters, Dragon’s tired of sharing. He’d rather keep his Heartwood Day cookies and decorations for himself. That is, until he arrives at the party empty-handed. Unable to take part in the celebrations, Dragon realizes what it means to share and gives Squirt the one thing he’s brought -- his favorite toy.
When the Cozy Hole gets a little too crowded with rambunctious bugs, Miss Spider and Holley decide their kids need the Sunny Patch equivalent of a treehouse – a groundhouse! They help the kids dig a burrow at the base of the Hollow Tree. At first it becomes the gathering spot for all the neighbourhood kids. But cranky neighbour, Spiderus, gets tired of the racket and convinces Dragon that a club isn’t special unless you keep out everybuggy but the best bugs. Dragon takes this bad advice to heart and winds up making so many rules he excludes everybody from the groundhouse but himself. Miss Spider explains that you don’t make a club special by who you keep out, but by who you let in. Dragon invites all the kids back. And soon it’s kid party-central again, much to Spiderus’ chagrin.
Squirt and Shimmer always have fun on their walks to school together. But one day Dragon flies up to tell Shimmer about some tasty rose hips he spotted high upon a bush. The Dragon and flying beetle fly off to check it out, leaving the ground-bound Squirt below. Squirt becomes super sensitive to all the things that the flying bugs can do and he can’t. When Miss Spider takes the kids on a playground outing, it seems like all the games Shimmer and Dragon want to play involve flying. Squirt throws a tantrum and runs off. Miss Spider explains what happened to the puzzled Shimmer and Dragon, and the two bugs fly off to find their brother hiding in a flower. After a round of “We’re sorrys”, the three friends find some games they can all play together.
The bed time routine in the Spider house is just taking too long. Miss Spider and Holley break out the wishing web to help their little Spiders get to bed on time. The web works wonders with everyone except Squirt - and Mom and Dad! When the Spider parents oversleep Bounce suggests they could use a wishing web of their own. Miss Spider figures turnabout is fair play. The Spider kids have to help their parents get up the web and earn a well-deserved morning to sleep in. 10A - SING IT, SISTER Pansy’s lifelong dream is to sing with the Dribbly Dell Singers. Unfortunately, she’s not a very good singer and not that interested in practicing, either. On the other hand, her twin sis, Snowdrop, has a beautiful voice but is too shy to go up on stage and sing in front of other bugs. On the day of the chorus auditions, Pansy forgets the lyrics. Snowdrop tries to help her sister out by singing along with her and winds up winning the solo slot in the chorus. Pansy’s feelings are hurt. But on the night of the big concert, Snowdrop gets a bad case of stage fright. So Pansy overcomes her jealousy to help her sister go up on stage, and the two wind up singing a beautiful duet together.
All the good folks in Sunny Patch are getting ready for cold weather. They collect seeds and get their little homes ready. Squirt is none too happy about having to work, when the weather is still so nice and there is still so much fun to be had in the sun. Miss Spider tells them he can play once all their work is done. It’s better to be prepared. When the ant brothers, Ned and Ted tell everyone including Squirt they have a hunch that cold weather is a long way off, everyone quits working. Ted and Ned are so sure their “ant-tuition” is right they throw a party. All of Sunny Patch goes to have one last summer hurrah except Holley and Miss Spider. When Squirt asks why they are not going, they tell him that regardless off when the cold weather is coming it’s best to do their work now so they’ll be sure to be ready. They don’t believe in the ant brothers’ ant-tuition. A hunch is never a safe bet. Holley and Miss Spider take Squirt on a little walk to show him the signs that cold weather is on its way. The bushes are laden with berries. The frogs have already hibernated. Squirt is convinced. He convinces his brothers and sisters too and the spider family gets their food stores ready. When a cold front moves in and Sunny Patch is covered in frost, the little spider family is tucked safe and warm in the Cozy Hole along with two frostbitten ants—Ned and Ted…
Dragon, Bounce, Shimmer and Squirt decide to try to pack the most fun ever into one fun-filled day. In the process, Squirt leaves webs lying all over Sunny Patch, making a mess for all the Sunny Patch bugs. When Bounce, Dragon and Shimmer race off to fly with Rocky and Roxie, the daredevil dragonflies, Squirt is left to clean up after himself. Squirt siblings have a change of heart and Dragon, Shimmer and Bounce decide to skip the dragonfly rides and help Squirt. After all, they were all using the webs – and all having fun.
It's the eve of the big Soccerberry Tournament. Wiggle loses a practice game and bursts into tears. "He's a cry buggie," Dragon tells Squirt. "Big bugs don't ever cry." Squirt takes the words to heart and refuses to cry even when he hurts his ankle and can't play in the big game. The bad feelings grow inside him until Miss Spider and Holley point out that everybody needs to cry sometimes. Even clouds feel better after a good cry of rain. They build rainbows! Squirt lets all the bad feelings come sobbing out, then comforts Dragon who gets teary when rain cancels the tournament.
Wiggle loves art class and can’t wait to enter a painting in the big Sunny Patch Art Show! But when everyone class is assigned to paint a daisy, Wiggle realizes his daisy doesn’t look as realistic as Shimmer’s. No matter how hard he tries, his drawing just looks, well, different. He even tries to paste a real daisy on a big canvas - but Holley’s big SNEEZE sends the petals flying off and reveals Wiggle’s scheme. Miss Spider and Holley show Wiggle that everybuggy’s art is different. And when Wiggle’s original, abstract daisy is entered in the show, he’s amazed when he wins a special prize!
When Miss Spider asks Dragon to help perpetual score-keeper, Spinner, learn to play basketberry, Dragon takes his job very seriously. But when Spinner has trouble making even one practise basket, Dragon and Squirt concoct a scheme to use spider silk to guide the basketberry through the hoop. Swish! The clueless Spinner’s so thrilled, he decides to try out for the Sunny Patch team. Dragon doesn’t want his little brother to be embarrassed, so he admits him he rigged the basketberry ball. Spinner’s hurt and Dragon’s guilty, until Miss Spider shows both boys that you don’t have to be a great player to try out for a team. Sports are about having fun!
A snake has been seen in Sunny Patch! As a result, Miss Spider tells her gang to play close to home. The kids discover a discarded snake skin and, carrying it like a Chinese Dragon, go around scaring other bugs. They think it's all great fun until Miss Spider catches them. When the real snake shows up, its up to mom to save the day. Using the skin, she and the kids pretend they're another snake. Miss Spider talks to the real serpent which turns out to be pretty polite. Still, the scare has made the kids realize it's not nice to frighten others.
Bug-a-boo Day’s approaching and all of Miss Spider’s little bugs have their costumes. Shimmer thinks dressing up is so much fun, why not use their costumes to put on a spooky play?! Everybuggy thinks it’s a great idea... until the work begins: writing a script, building a stage, setting up seats, learning their lines, etc. Her brothers and sisters one by one abandon Shimmer for other Bug-a-boo day fun. Looks like her Bug-a-boo Hullabaloo will close before it opens, until Miss Spider comes up with a way for Shimmer to put on her play. Using spider web threads, they turn the empty costumes into marionettes. And with the help of stage-struck Spiderus, Shimmer’s show is a big hit!
It’s the day before the winter solstice – the longest night of the year. All the bugs are finishing up their good deeds to make sure the Dream Bug brings them a long night full of good dreams. When Bounce enlists Spiderus help to complete his good deed - delivering some seeds to Eunice Earwig, Spiderus can’t resist keeping the goodies for himself. As a result, he is in for a long solstice night that includes a dream that turns his attitude around.
It’s winter time in Sunny Patch and the Spider brood is preparing for their annual Holly Day Fest; a time of fun, games, good eats and most important of all, getting together with family. Miss Spider, Squirt and Bounce have headed out to deliver some midwinter treats to a spider with a home full of new-hatches. On the way home, a storm interrupts their journey. It looks like they may not make it home in time for the Holly Day Fest. With the help of Stinky and Flint the firefly, Miss Spider and her buglets make it home just in time.
Bummed out when he can’t find anyone to play with, Squirt makes a new friend -- a teensy no-see-um fly named Pippy. Unfortunately, Pippy is so tiny she’s too nervous to speak to anyone but Squirt, leading everyone to assume Squirt has an imaginary friend! A frustrated Squirt is determined not to let it ruin his new friendship, however; it’s not long before his pint-sized pal feels she’s too small to be his friend. Pippy flies away, but not so far that she can’t hear the CLUCK, CLUCK, CLUCK of an approaching… chicken! When Pippy courageously nips the bird sending it back to the chicken coop, the terrified kids can’t believe their eyes. Squirt’s friend really does exist! Realizing she’s not as little as she thought, Pippy finds her voice -- reminding everyone that big or small, everyone deserves to be seen and heard.
Shimmer’s wowed by Magnus MacBeetle’s virtuosity on the bugpipes and begs her parents to let her play the cool-looking instrument. But soon after, Shimmer decides she’d really rather take dance class. Unfortunately, Holley and Miss Spider have already built a set of shiny new bugpipes for her. The guilty Shimmer secretly enlists Spinner to “practise” for her, while she sneaks away to dance class. But at the big recital, her ruse is exposed when she HONKS and BLATS on the goofy horn. She admits that she hasn’t been practicing because what she really wants to do is dance. But there’s a great bugpipe player sitting in the audience who really should be up on stage: Spinner!
Bounce is thrilled when Grandma Betty and Uncle Gus come over to bugsit for the day. However, he’s not so thrilled when he learns what they have planned for him, Shimmer, and Squirt! Bounce had his heart set on launching propeller seed rockets, but Betty and Gus want to try something new -- namely tunnel tag and picking wild rice. Despite much encouragement, a pouty Bounce sits the day out, unwilling to try anything new until they get to their very last surprise of the day. A ladybug picnic! Bounce is starved and digs into their mysterious ladybug lunch which turns out to be… MOLD! Betty, Gus, Shimmer and Squirt are suddenly not very hungry, but with some prodding from Bounce, finally give it a taste. After happily polishing off everyone else’s lunch, Bounce is rearing to try everything else that’s new. Tunnel tag, anyone?
Squirt, Bounce and Snowdrop are going on a bug scout overnight outing – to the top of the tallest tree in Sunny Patch – a giant Tulip Tree. When Mr. Mantis, the Bug Scout leader, has an emergency, Holley reluctantly volunteers to lead the crew. While Bounce and Squirt race to the top, Snowdrop and Holley have to fight their trepidation. But in the end, Bounce and Squirt nearly run out of gas. Snowdrop steps up to save the day – and their climb to the top o’ big tree.
Squirt wants to play Sky Chiefs with Shimmer and Dragon he gets left behind because he can’t fly. Determined to be a flying superhero like his siblings he makes himself some flying gear. He tries leaves, dandelion seeds and finally a set of hummingbird wings with an acorn helmet. Before he knows it he is transformed into Captain Sunny Patch—a superhero with a secret identity. Squirt flies around Sunny Patch trying to do good deeds. When a snake threatens his family he has to come to the rescue for real without his Captain Sunny Patch disguise. He finds out that with or without his disguise he can be heroic.
Captain Sunny Patch Flies Again
When Squirt spends an afternoon teaching a very nervous Wiggle to surf a web, he throws on his old Captain Sunny Patch wings and helmet. Suddenly a gust of wind sweeps Squirt away into the Snakey Woods. Wiggle doesn’t get the courage up to surf home and has to run instead. Squirt flies back toward Sunny Patch when he notices smoke on the horizon. He has to race back home to warn everybuggy. Meanwhile Wiggle tells Miss Spider and Holley about Squirt. They get a search party out looking for the little spider. Eventually they meet up. They dispatch Squirt to gather everyone at Taddy Puddle. Squirt warns everyone but when he heads to the Hollow Tree to warn Wiggle, he gets caught in a bush. Wiggle has to get the courage up to surf a web and save him. The two boys make it back safely to Taddy Puddle where all the bugs are waiting for them. Everyone is safe thanks to Captain Sunny Patch and his sidekick Wiggle Webwalker.
Dragon sees Spiderus pretend to hurt his ankle in order to get out of work. So when Miss Spider’s family is invited to a “boring ol’ tea party” at Spindella and Spiderus’, Dragon pretends to have the bug flu. But when Miss Spider insists he stay in bed and eat healthy chickweed noodle soup instead of playing with his brothers and sisters, Dragon realizes he’s sick of being sick! Dragon admits he had the fakey flu. The apologetic dragonfly makes it up to everybuggy by picking the most delicious berries at the top of the berry bush.
Squirt’s so busy playing, he’s late for dinner, late for bedtime and late for school. So Holley and Miss Spider build a sundial in the middle of the Village Square. This way all the kids can see what time it is – from almost anywhere in Sunny Patch. Squirt’s tardiness improves until a cloudy day comes along. Squirt is so busy web-surfing he misses his pal Eddy’s hatchday party. So Holley teaches Squirt a cloudy-day way of telling time by singing “The Minute Long Song.”
Mr. Mantis has assigned the kids a project to build a Family Tree -- a tree made of twigs and leaves with a branch to represent each bug in their family, and a memento from the place where they hatched to decorate it. Of the three adopted kids, Dragon and Bounce are happy to find their special something in Sunny Patch. Shimmer, however, wants to find a memento from her real ‘hatchday’ place to decorate their tree. So Miss Spider offers to help her find where she was born. When Shimmer starts to wonder about her beetle mother along the way, Miss Spider shares her story of how she herself was adopted and how she came to find her new home. Although they are unable to find Shimmer’s ‘hatchday’ tree, Shimmer is comforted by the fact that she found Miss Spider and the family she was meant to be with. In the end Shimmer decorates their Family Tree with a flower Miss Spider saved from a very special day -- the day Shimmer was adopted.
Squirt is having a blast surfing the web on a windy day when he gets a little overzealous and decides to try a daring new stunt -- the super spider surfer loop-de-loop. Squirt’s siblings think it’s a bad idea, so when Squirt takes a tumble off his web and does several more loop-de-loops than he’d intended -- he’s too embarrassed to admit that his super stunt was actually a very scary accident. But are the kids ever impressed! Squirt’s a real pro-surfer! Basking somewhat uncomfortably in his newfound fame, Squirt turns into a bonafide jitterbug when word gets around and every buggy wants to see his amazing new stunt again. Too scared to surf, Squirt finally admits what happened to Miss Spider, who helps him find both the courage to admit the truth to his friends and to get back on his web again.
It’s Holley and Miss Spider’s anniversary. And Holley’s planned a big night out on the town. But he’s forgotten to arrange a buggysitter. Spindella to the rescue! Problem is Spiderus is so lonely all by himself in their lair, he keeps thinking of excuses to come up to the Cozy Hole. Shimmer realizes he just feels left out and invites to join their fun. To everybuggy’s surprise, grumpy Spiderus turns out to be a lot of fun – and a great buggysitter! By the time Miss Spider and Holley come home, Spiderus is sound asleep along with all the other little bugs
Squirt is in a quandary. Lil Sis has invited him to her birthday party and he promised her he would go. But when Dragon comes home and announces that all the kids are going to take part in a tuber tuba parade Squirt wants to do that instead. Squirt’s in a pickle. He doesn’t know what to do. Holley shows Squirt his Thinking Stone . Holley explains that when he has something serious to think about he takes time out and sits on his Thinking Stone. He suggests that Squirt find a Thinking Stone of his own. Squirt goes on a quest. He tries all kinds of stones all the while trying to solve his dilemma. He eventually finds a perfect Thinking Stone and finds a resolution to his problem. He finds a way to both go to Lil Sis’ party and participate in the tuber tuba parade.
While playing a game of ‘I spy’ -- Dragon spies a pair of glasses lying on the ground. He thinks they look just like a pair of the Flying Aces’ goggles and is he ever thrilled! When Dragon brings them home, however, Miss Spider and Holley insist he try to find who the glasses belong to. After an unsuccessful attempt at locating the owner, Dragon happily goes back to playing with them. Meanwhile, Frank the far-sighted Firefly has careened in through the Spider’s open window. He’s lost his glasses and he’s blind as an earthworm without them! Miss Spider and Holley know just where to find the firefly’s specs -- that is until they learn Dragon’s lost them. Realizing his careless mistake, Dragon teams his expert dragonfly eyesight with Frank’s lit firefly bottom to scour the ground from the nighttime sky -- finding not only Frank’s lost specs, but also a newfound respect for other bugs’ property.
There is one last summer berry left in all of Sunny Patch and both Shimmer and Squirt have laid claim to it at the same time. At first they play a game of keep away, but what starts out as fun escalates into an all out fight. Miss Spider and Holley tell Shimmer and Squirt that they have to find another way to resolve their conflict. Holley gives the kids all kinds of suggestions; walking away, apologizing, he even tries his patented “Wheel of Choice.” Nothing works. The kids are intransigent. The kids are “stumped.” They have to stay on the big stump, until they kiss and make up which could mean they’re going to miss the afternoon mushroom safari. Eventually the two cool off and start having a good time. When Miss Spider tells them they can join the rest of the gang on the mushroom safari. Shimmer and Squirt pass. They’re having more fun being stumped!
While running a race during the tryouts for the Sunny Patch Pinecone Derby, Snowdrop accidentally crashes into Shelley the Snail and his little beetle friend. Upset when the little beetle tells her she has a lot of legs, Snowdrop rushes home. Miss Spider’s surprised when she hears her daughter thinks she’s clumsy because of her multitudinous limbs. Snowdrop’s a spider! She’s supposed to have a lot of legs! Intent on improving her physical dexterity, Snowdrop does what she can to minimize her appendages. She ties them behind her back and even tries to hide them with a fake set of wings! When Snowdrop trips and ends up with several sprained ankles, Holley and Miss Spider are finally able to prove to their little spider that bugs come in many shapes and sizes. Eight legs may be a lot for a beetle, but it’s the perfect number of legs for her!
It’s the annual silly-as-a-dilly bug-a-thon. Squirt and Gus are training for the backward relay when Gus twists a leg. Squirt convinces Miss Spider to fill in for Gus, despite her protests that she’s not good at any of the events that make up the bug-a-thon. It doesn’t matter if she’s good or not, after all, it is for charity. Despite his best intentions, Squirt is overcome by the spirit of competition, and when it looks like Squirt and Miss Spider aren’t going to win a single event, Squirt begins to get down. He finally gets the true spirit of the competition – it’s not about winning, but about helping other bugs and having fun – when their wheelbarrow race goes awry.
A thunderstorm cuts Miss Spider and Holley romantic Taddy Puddle cruise short. They race home opting to have a quiet night instead. But once at home they find some of the kids are a little frightened by the storm. Shimmer volunteers to put her siblings to bed so that Miss Spider and Holley can have some quiet time. Keeping seven kids in bed is not an easy task. To keep their minds off the storm she weaves a lovely fairytale incorporating her siblings as characters. Sir Bounce-a-lot, the brave little bedbug, leads the way to vanquish the storm’s creator, Cumulonimbus the Cloud King. Along the way Bounce-a-lot, Princess Snowhitedrop, Squirt the Invincible, Dragon the Brave and Shimmer find out that the best way to weather bad weather is to stick together.
Squirt is out web surfing with his sibs when Miss Spider asks him to let Spindella’s visiting niece join them. Squirt is reluctant, especially since Petal doesn’t look like much of a web-surfer. Much to Squirt’s surprise, Petal not only turns out to be a great web-surfer – she doesn’t really want to surf with Squirt, especially after he suggests that she is a “show off”. Some friendly competitive dandelion-busting helps bring the bugs together and by the time Petal has to leave, the two spiders are nearly inseparable.
Squirt, Shimmer and Spinner are playing in the Taddy Puddle when they come across Felix the frog – a sweet natured amphibian who’s tongue challenged. When the little bugs take pity on him and untangle his tongue from a cattail, they discover Felix, unlike other frogs, isn’t a bug eater. The bugs and frog become instant playmates. Meanwhile, Dragon, Bounce and Pansy are looking for a little adventure since their regular bug games, like dew drop dodgeball, just don’t seem as fun as they used to. So when Spiderus shows up with news of a scary frog sighting near the Taddy Puddle, Dragon convinces Pansy and Bounce to join the Sunny Patch Anti-Frog Squad. Squirt, Shimmer and Spinner realize they must keep their new froggy friend a secret. Unfortunately, Spiderus spots Felix from his watchtower and rallies his Anti-Frog Squad along with other Sunny Patchers to dispatch the green menace. Squirt and the bug pack have to work together to disguise Felix as a funny-looking bush – and Spiderus is left embarrassed when the other bugs think he was just seeing things.
It’s ‘Be Good to Bugs Day’ in Sunny Patch! Everybuggy is counting down the minutes to the ‘Be Good to Bugs Day’ fair -- but what the Spider kids are really excited for this morning is going to meet their secret frog friend Felix! With Spiderus’s bumbling Anti-Frog Squad in full force, the kids have great fun trying to hide their amphibian amigo. Now if only they could hide the fact that Felix is a big green frog so he could join them at the fair! With a little imagination and a disguise that stumps even Spiderus -- they turn Felix into a big green bug! However, there’s no fooling Miss Spider. With Felix waiting for his pals in the meadow, the ‘Be Good to Bugs Day’ party is in full swing when Felix’s parents -- two very frightening frogs looking for their son, suddenly interrupt it. Felix is finally found and frog-walked back to the Taddy Puddle, but not before a huge storm sends him rushing back to rescue his friends from the rising water. With it too dark to return home, Felix becomes an honorary bug and spends the night snug with his best bug buddies in the Cozy Hole.
Be Good to Bugs... and Frogs
After a sleepover in the Cozy Hole with his new, buggy best friends, Felix the frog decides he doesn’t want to go home. He’d rather stay with Miss Spider and family and be a bug. When Miss Spider tries to convince the little frog that his mom and dad miss him back at the Taddy Puddle, Felix disagrees. He tells Miss Spider his parents don’t understand him because he’s not like other frogs: He eats berries, can’t hop so hot, and his tongue has terrible aim. Touched, Miss Spider decides to take a trip to the Taddy Puddle for a bug to frog chat with his parents. Unfortunately, when Frank the near-sighted firefly sees Miss Spider with Mrs. Frog, he alerts Spiderus, who panics and raises the alarm to rescue her. As an army of agitated bugs faces off against Felix’s parents, Miss Spider is caught in the middle trying to calm everybuggy/froggy down. But it’s too late - as Spiderus finds himself on a lily pad within tongue range of the angered frogs. Felix to the rescue! The bug pack helps him aim his tongue, and the little frog rescues Spiderus in the nick of time. With the misunderstanding resolved, the frog family become the guests of honour at the Be Good To Bugs and Frogs Day fair.
Fungus Among Us / Ground Bound
When Wiggle brings home one little mushroom, he's not prepared for the full on fungal invasion that follows. / When Wiggle brings home one little mushroom, he's not prepared for the full on fungal invasion that follows. When Wiggle brings home one little mushroom, he’s not prepared for the full on fungal invasion that follows. A windstorm injures Berry, the cranefly, the beloved Taddy Puddle lifeguard and the Sunny Patch kids help their friend find new ways of doing old things.
Pitch and Itch / Bounce Back
The ant brothers, Ted and Ned, come up with a new scheme to get food and they sell itchy ivy leaves as magic carpets. There's no magic in the leaves--just a lot of itches./ Bounce has lost his smile and Squirt, Shimmer and Dragon do everything they can to find it. When Shimmer suggests that maybe somebuggy cast a bad spell on Bounce, she calls on the Knights of the Round Toadstool to help find out who did.
Lost and Sound / It’s My Party
Spinner thinks of a song but forgets how it goes before he can sing it for his parents. So Holley shows him how to use a "Melody Catcher," a webby musical staff./It's Squirt, Spinner, Pansy, Snowdrop and Wiggle's hatchday and they can't agree what kind of party to have. They all want something different. Especially Squirt who decides to have a party all to himself and has to learn a thing or two about sharing.
Lulla-Bug / The Most Perfect Parent
Spiderus tries to sing to his unhatched babies and mistakes Snowdrop's voice for his soon-to-be spiderlings. / When left in charge of his three baby bugs, the pompous Spiderus has to admit he's not the perfect parent he thought he was.