Yoko Season 2, Episode 9: Excellence Award

Sleep well, Mr Bear

It's winter and many animals in the Park are hibernating. But Oto can't stop himself from being noisy and he wakes them up. Whoops. Now the children and Yoko must find a way to help the animals fall asleep again. They try to put the animals back to bed by creating a Dreamland with clouds, stars and sheep to count. They sing lullabies. In the end they manage to send all the animals back to sleep, a moment before the children themselves fall asleep as well (in Ranger Loops' shed).

12 min

Busy bees

Oto keeps getting distracted - he is afraid of bees. They are everywhere. Yoko asks the bees to leave the park. But things change - flowers don't grow, the natural order of things is broken. Ranger Loops is worried. Yoko and the children go on a quest to apologize and get the bees back. They even meet the queen bee. Finally all the bees come back to the park and everything goes back to normal.

A simple rescue

One day, Oto and Mai help an old lady rescue her puppy from some bushes. Later, a little girl goes missing and Ranger Loops and two policemen organize a search party. The kids want to help but the policemen tell them that a rescue is not a game. However, the kids think that it could be a game, and it would be better if it were. Thanks to Yoko's magic, the kids appear all over the park, like real professionals. The policemen recognize that they are far more resourceful than they gave them credit for. Besides, Mai is the only one who realizes that the puppy's disappearance is the clue to finding the missing baby.

At ease

Mai wants to teach her friends a dance routine. Vik and Yoko like the idea and try to learn the dance, but Oto thinks that the movements are twee and uncool, and decides to go off alone to play ninjas. Vik suggests doing a more energetic dance, with ninja movements, so they can all play together, but Oto is too embarrassed and says no. Mai has an idea to convince Oto: why not turn the dance into a contest? This excites Yoko and he conjures up a colored dance floor, like a dance video-game. They challenge Oto to pass the first level. Oto gives it a try, unenthusiastically at first, but little by little starts moving up the 3D levels. Finally he reaches the last level, which is the most difficult and which involves dancing without any patterns. And he passes the test. Just then he realizes that he is dancing to music on nothing but grass. Just like his friends had been doing before when rehearsing the dance routine.

Delivery Service

Oto can't wait to see his friends and play trains. But when he arrives they are already playing a delivery service game and he is disappointed. They volunteer to help Ranger Loops deliver a parcel. Mai and Vik are determined to prove to Oto that delivering things can be fun. Thanks to Yoko's magic the kids' delivery service becomes a real adventure with trains, chases and crows who want to grab the bird food parcel for themselves. Oto joins in the game and realizes that combining ideas for different games can be fun. He helps Mai and Vik get their parcel delivered on time.

The three little friends

Two little kids ask Mai to read them the story of "The Three Little Pigs". Mai doesn't want to admit that she can't read and pretends that she is reading, but she is suffering so much that Yoko decides to help her by putting some pictures in the book to guide her. The three pigs in Mai's story look like Mai, Oto and Vik, and each of them tries to improve the role of the pig that resembles them. Finally, when all the characters are happy with the story, even the two little kids, Mai confesses that she can't read yet, but will be able to someday, because she is learning.

Back to school

Tomorrow is the first day back at school after the holidays. Yoko doesn't know what school is so Mai and Vik decide to set up a pretend classroom to explain it to him. Oto joins in and - thanks to Yoko's magic - becomes the head teacher. Although at first he is convinced he has much better ideas about how to run a school, Oto struggles with the reality of the task and ends up losing all his pupils on a school outing to the jungle. In the end he realizes that rules are there for a reason. Also, the game reminds him how many great things there are about going back to school.

Oto's dinosaur

Vik has a new wristwatch and is learning how to tell the time. Yoko tries to learn how the watch works, but its hands move too slowly for him and, bored, he creates a time machine. The kids travel to different times, finally arriving in the Jurassic Period. Oto finds a small orphan dinosaur and decides to bring it back to the park. Yoko, Vik and Mai try to show him that each animal belongs in its own environment but Oto doesn't want to understand; besides, the dinosaur's like a rabbit that only eats plants. Oto hides the dinosaur and takes it back to the park, causing all the other animals to flee in fright. He soon realizes that each animal belongs in its own environment.

The puddle

The three friends play around a small puddle by the lake with their toys. Oto has a can of salt that his parents gave him to build "a hangar". To avoiding having to go over to the litter bin, which is too far away, he empties the salt into the puddle. Suddenly, Oto realizes that several goldfish and tadpoles are looking ill and trying to escape from the water. The four friends decide to act. Each has a mission: Vik runs to warn Ranger Loops while the others try to save the animals. But they can't see the little bugs that live inside the puddle, so Yoko decides to use his magic: Mai, Oto and Yoko become tiny beings and help rescue the animals with a toy-submarine, a toy-seaplane and a toy-boat. But that's not enough, so they all need to work together to find a better solution. Oto learns that he should not dump any substance in the park.

Yoko Park Inspector

There is a Park Inspector in Yoko Park. The children and Yoko are on a mission to make sure she loves the park, but she keeps putting red stickers everywhere. It seems as if she doesn't like Yoko Park at all. But when she gets involved in the children's and Yoko's imaginative games, it turns out that this lady is not what she seems. It turns out that the red stickers were there to mark what she loved about the park. And it turns out she loved pretty much everything.

Gift-giving day

The year comes to an end and Mai does not know what gift to ask for. Vik does not ask for any gifts at this time of year, because his parents have other customs. Oto has asked for a day at the Crazy Cars Amusement Park, but his parents want him to ask for something more sensible. Mai thinks that maybe it's more exciting to give presents than to receive them. Ranger Loops listens to the children and proposes a game: a Secret Santa draw in which they give each other handmade or recycled things as gifts. Ranger Loops and Yoko are included in the gift-giving game and the five of them start investigating (comically) what their designated person would like as a gift.

The best toy in the world

The children can't decide what would be the best toy in the world - Vik's transformer? Mai's pencil? Or Oto's ball? When Yoko arrives he offers them a wooden stick. "But it's not a proper toy!" exclaims Vik. However, with their imagination and Yoko's magic, it turns out that a wooden stick can be all sorts of things: a sword, a bridge, a stickman, a pole with a flag, a snake, a brush, a raft, a magic wand. Each toy creates a magical world that Yoko brings to life with his magic. And the wooden stick saves the day in each and every game they play. In the end they realize that it's not the toy, but rather your imagination that counts.

The Play

An amphitheater has been built in the park and Ranger Loops has organized a children's theatre marathon for the opening day. Mai wants to participate in it, but Vik and Oto have doubts: Vik is embarrassed to act in front of people and Oto is bad at memorizing lines. But Yoko loves the idea, so finally they decide to participate. The show begins and when our friends' turn comes, Oto forgets all his lines, although luckily Mai is able to improvise by integrating Oto's doubts into the play. Vik puts on a mask to go on stage, although, without realizing it, he later loses it and gives a great performance without noticing that his face is uncovered. The show also has a lot of magic (courtesy of Yoko), although the spectators believe that it is just a lucky mixture of good scenery and meteorological phenomena. In the end, Oto and Vik thank Mai for convincing them to try something new.