YooHoo to the Rescue is an Italian-Korean animated children's television series produced by Aurora World and Mondo TV. It is the third TV series based on the YooHoo & Friends franchise, and serves as a revival of the franchise. The show is the first Netflix original series for children from South Korea.[2]
In a series of magical missions, quick-witted YooHoo and his can-do crew travel the globe to help animals in need. It was released March 15, 2019 on Netflix.[4]
Plot
YooHoo to the Rescue follows the adventures of five animal friends who live in the magical land of YooTopia, a land far outside the Milky Way. In each episode, they travel to a new destination to help animals in trouble and make new friends along the way. When there is a problem on YooTopia, the colorful fruits of the Sparkling Tree begin to fade. The friends get their special gadgets and board their ship Wonderbug, a ladybug-like aircraft. They use wit, teamwork, and special gadgets to solve problems and help animals in need. Over the course of their adventures, they learn fun facts about a wide variety of environments and make friends with animals.[5]
The crew meets a rhino who headbutts into everything he sees. Instead of apologizing to his friends, the rhino runs away and hides. The crew finds the missing rhino, and realizes that he wasn't intentionally headbutting, but in fact, is very near-sighted, thus not being able to see the proximity. The crew helps him see better again, and the rhino learns to apologize to his friends.
The crew meets a worried bat who is looking for her baby sister. She was teaching her younger sister how to fly at night, when she suddenly disappeared. The crew finds the younger bat, who confesses that she is afraid of the night because of all the scary noises. The crew shows her the beauty of the night sky and helps her overcome her fear, and fly.
The crew meets three frog brothers who are entering a choir competition. The neighborhood has suffered a drought recently, and the frog brothers are experiencing sore throat, which would prevent them from entering the competition. The crew helps draw water from an underground reservoir and help the frogs prepare for the competition in the best condition.
The crew meets a snow leopard who is trying to visit her long-time friend after the bridge that used to connect their territories collapsed. The snow leopard, with the help of the crew, makes a huge leap on the cliff, and gets to the other side. She is reunited with her best friend.
The crew meets a marmot who is waiting for his bunny friends for the Spring Fair. As the bunnies are unusually late, the crew and the marmot travel down the underground rabbit burrow to try to find and wake the bunnies up.
The crew meets a sugar glider lost in the woods. She wants to go back home, and the crew pieces together clues to locate her home. The sugar glider demonstrates her ability to fly, which surprises Chewoo, a fellow squirrel.
The crew meets a polar bear cub in the middle of the ocean, who has swum out to the sea to fish for his friends. They rescue the cub and help the bear by luring the fish using their tails as baits. The crew and the cub return to the polar bear island and feed the hungry polar bears.
The crew meets three red panda sisters. The oldest sister is a sensitive painter who doesn't eat or sleep while she's working. The crew and her worried younger sisters try to help her but instead accidentally mess up her painting.
The crew meets two otter brothers. The elder brother asks the crew to babysit for his troublesome baby brother while he goes on a trip. The crew is exhausted following the baby otter around, and he runs away to a cave. The crew follows him to the cave, and finds out that the baby otter was causing trouble to look for his treasured pebble, which was a birthday gift from his older brother.
The crew meets a moon bear cub who needs help finding his missing friends. After a search, the crew realizes that all the friends have gone into hibernation. The crew helps the unwilling moon bear go to bed by babysitting him.
The crew meets a giant panda who is suffering from a heatstroke. They decide to bring some ice back from the icecap on top of the faraway mountain while one of the crew plays with the panda.
The crew meets a chameleon who enjoys scaring his friends with his camouflage during the game of hide-and-seek. His turtle friend gets so surprised and decides to never play with the chameleon. The crew and the turtle camouflage to one-up the chameleon, but the plan backfires.
The crew meets blue-footed Sula birds. One of the birds is a picky eater and only eats a certain kind of fish. His pretty blue foot turned grey due to malnutrition. The crew catches various types of fish and cooks them so that the picky-eating bird can enjoy them.
The crew meets a beaver who is busy building his dam, and generally creating a mess everywhere. When his dam gets destroyed, and the beaver is distraught as the mess he left everywhere prevents him to build another one quickly. The crew helps him organize the tools and resources, and help the beaver build a new dam.
The crew meets a couple of animals who complain about the loud noise made by a certain woodpecker. The crew finds the woodpecker, but realizes that he was actually trying to cure the trees from bad worms. The crew helps the woodpecker rest, and help catch the worms.
The crew meets a reindeer who runs away from an avalanche. They get trapped in the snow together. The crew and the reindeer work together to escape the snow.
The crew meets a whooping crane who injured his wing while on a migration with his friends and was left behind. The crane refuses to fly, but the crew helps him get his energy back and follow his friends.
The crew meets meerkats duo who has lost the sacred stone that they have been guarding. The meerkats blame the crew, but soon confesses that it got blown away by the wind. The crew helps them find the stone.
The crew meets a buffalo who has chased away his chatty friend, a cattle egret. After his friend has left, the buffalo realizes that the bird was helping him chase away the flies and insects. The crew helps these best friends restore their friendship.
The crew meets two flamingos who needs help locating a friend who is in fact feigning sickness. YooHoo and Roodee get into danger while searching for the missing flamingo, who has to overcome "the boy who cried wolf" situation.
The crew meets two rock-hopper penguins who compete for the highest rock. In the midst of competition, they hop on an unstable rock which wobbles. Both penguins fall down into a hole. The crew rescues them from the hole.
The crew meets three hippos who ask to seek out the cause of the recent drought. They bring one of the hippos to the source of water and sees that it is being blocked by coconut shells. The hippo admits to littering after eating the coconuts which somehow ended up clogging the water source, resulting in the dry pond. The crew helps with the clogging, and the hippo promises not to litter.
The crew meets the cheetahs who hold a sprint competition to elect the captain of the pack. One of the cheetahs gets injured while running. The first-place cheetah stops the competition and runs to the aid of the injured friend. The friends elect the first-place cheetah to be the captain not because of her running, but because of her heart.
The crew meets two quokkas who are quarreling over the nice cool shade under the tree. They all embark on the journey to find a large enough tree that can shelter both quokkas. After finding the perfect tree, they take a nap and wake up to find that the shade moved. The quokkas realize that it wasn't each other who took the shaded spot in the first place, and reconcile.
The crew meets a spectacled bear whose treehouse was destroyed by a storm the night before. The crew tries to look for the perfect tree to build a house on.
The crew meets an ibex who got his head stuck while trying to lick salts off of the mountain rocks. After the crew helps the ibex, he travels further up the mountain, demonstrating his rock-climbing prowess. After he injures himself while climbing too recklessly, the crew helps him again and he promises to be more careful.
Two emperor tamarins crossing a bridge refuse to get out of each other's way, and won't stop arguing or passing the blame. The crew's mission? Helping the 2 resolve their differences and recover the necklaces.
A snowy owl calls the crew to help deal with a noisy neighbor so he can get some sleep. As it turns out, it's another owl, and the crew end up showing the two a glimpse of each other's lifestyles.
YooHoo and company help a cowardly Frill-necked lizard retrieve a ball in a dark cave. However, they have to make sure he looks brave in front of his friends.
The gang helps a pika deal with her excessively large collection of pine cones, but she has an obsession and keeps collecting so much that there isn't any room in her new homes.
A cozumel raccoon calls the crew to help search the mangrove forest for crabs to eat. It turns out a large rock is blocking an important waterway for the forest.
A sea turtle calls the crew to get a bucket off his head. Inviting them to some fun in the sun, a post-meal cleanup reveals that the turtle has a bad habit of littering. Things come full circle when the carelessly disposed trash washes up on the beach, calling the crew to teach him how to recycle.
YooHoo and friends set off to help a pair of koalas move their sleepy friend to a leafier part of a eucalyptus forest, but he's to lazy to move anywhere fast and constantly procrastinates.
The gang helps a Hawaiian crow fulfill his dream of becoming a chef, but his cooking skills are less than palatable.
Release
YooHoo to the Rescue was released on March 15, 2019, on Netflix[4] with the first 26 episodes.
Media information
Mondo TV secured a global licensing and merchandising deal with Panini that will market a line of products that include stickers, trading cards and photocards, set to launch in early 2018.[13]
