Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego and her army of anti-social aardvarks has struck again. This time, they vandalized the green valleys and verdant meadows of New Zealand. First severed by Polynesian people, now called Māori about 1,000 years ago, the islands of New Zealand were colonized by the British in 1840. And they brought some very important friends: sheep. Why are sheep important in New Zealand? I'll tell you. Okay, it's the 19th century. England's farmland is shrinking while its population is growing. "Hmm," England says, "how do we feed these folks? Hey! We got New Zealand, a huge colony crawling with sheep, but it's 13,000 miles away. Well, I guess we'll just have to develop refrigeration. Yes!" So they froze the sheep, tipped them halfway around the world, and everyone was happy. England had food, New Zealand had a major industry. Now if you can just freeze Carmen and send it to Mars... well, anyway. Yesterday, Vic the Slick, disguised as Little Bo Peep, rounded up 65 million of the cloven hoofed critters and herded them away. Every last sheep from Wellington to Waikawa is gone, gone, gone. Now gumshoes, here's your mission: vanquish Vic, shag the sheep home, and then corral that criminal Carmen Sandiego.
(the Sheep are heard bleating in the background)
All this bleepin' bleatin' is givin' me a headache, Carmen.
Take two aspirin and scram before ACME makes mutton out of you.
RRockapella
(sings when the Sheep are revealed in the second round) Little lost lambies!
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego's swarm of sorted sociopaths has struck again. This time, they convened a criminal conclave in Nairobi, Kenya. Nairobi has become one of Africa's leading international cities, and the gleaming Kenyatta Conference Center helped pave the way. Named for former president Jomo Kenyatta and opened in the early '70s, this 28-story building was home to the U.N.'s first African headquarters. These days, its fine facilities hosts a wide-range of conventions and conferences from around the world. And from the top-floor viewing deck, you can see the entire city of Nairobi stretched out before you. But today, meetings were abruptly adjourned when the Kenyatta Conference Center disappeared. Wonder Rat, Carmen's scruffy scheming scallywag, snatched the center then made a hasting retreat. He plans to use it as a centerpiece of his very own resort, Ratlantic City. Your mission, gumshoes: whisk that whiskered Wonder to jail, return the Kenyatta Conference Center to Nairobi, and then capture Carmen Sandiego.
(to everyone in ACME Control Net, who are asleep, via noxious gas) C'mon, it's a big joke, right? HEY! Big jo--! (he then comes up with an idea) LUNCH!
(everyone wakes up and Greg laughs)
Hey, you guys! You guys! Hey! You guys! You guys! HEY!
(everyone stares at him)
(everyone angrily throws things at him as he exits)
Head for a national park with one of the world's biggest volcanoes. Native Americans called it Tahoma.
Aw, a huge volcano? Gee, Carmen, I hope you're not trying to get rid of me!
Relax. There hasn't been a major eruption for about 2,000 years. These days it's home to the largest single-peak glacial system in the U.S. outside of Alaska.
Tahoma, huh? I never heard of it.
That's because it was renamed by a British explorer. He called it Mount Rainier.
Hey. If he can rename it, then I can rename it. How about Mount Ratnier? (giggles)
(after Rockapella's parody of the Supremes' "Why Do Fools Fall in Love") Rockapella, ladies and gentlemen! Along with Lisa Price! Give 'em a round of applause!
(after Rockapella chases Lisa before the Chase) Lisa Price, with Rockapella.
Darwin Research Station. (Shoeprints are revealed)
No. Thank you. Rockapella, ladies and gentlemen.
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego and her team of twisted twerps have struck again. This time, they bullied their way to Binghamton, New York. Binghamton is the home of WSKG-TV, a member station of PBS. From its studios, WSKG serves 21 counties in New York and Pennsylvania. Other TV networks are owned by big corporations, but PBS is a joint venture of its 341 member stations. Local stations like WSKG produce both community, oriented, and national programs, and they raise a significant portion of their money through membership drive. SKG has been a PBS member since 1968. But now, Binghamton is PBS-less because Wonder Rat, that sniveling superhero wannabe, stole the station. He plans to turn it into RTV, Rat Television, 24 hours a day, written, directed, and starring himself. Gumshoes, there will be no more PBS in the 21 counties until the station is returned. You've got to round up that rat, free SKG, and then catch Carmen Sandiego.
MZMike Ziegler
Hey! When that rat stole the station, he stole me with it! He holds the station south, just across the Rio Grande. We're getting T.V. shows from a network called Televisa. It's huge! They've got 4 national channels, lots of original programming, and even some American T.V. shows dubbed with Spanish voices. I hope you get this tape, Gumshoes. Remember, (forms the ACME Triangle of Excellence with his hands) Vigilance, Dedication, Courage. Now, get me outta here!
Yeah! So, Carmen, this is great! I'll have my network goin' in no time.
ACME's on to you. Head for the home of Chennai Cheetah Studios.
Yeah, Yeah. Where Federico Fellini directed his movies. He could do my life story. We'll call it La Dolce Vita Rat On. That means this sweet ratlife.
I know what it means. Just lay low and stay away from the reconte vershoto.
Yeah, Yeah. I gotta watch my weight in these tight space. Maybe I could market a diet drink. Maybe?
RRockapella
(each time WSKG is revealed in the 2nd round)
Cool totebag!
Viewers like you-ooo!
Won't you be my neighbor?!
Pledge Drive!
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego and her gang of vino vipers have vandalized again. This time, they did the deed on the island of Phuket in Thailand. Around 1785, the governor of Thalang, Phuket's administrative center, died. So the king of Burma thought, "Hey, good time for me to invade." His army tried to take Phuket, but they ran into two obstacles: the governor's widow, Khun Ying Chan and her sister, Kung Ying Muk. The two rallied the townspeople and forced the Burmese army to retreat. Thailand's king was so grateful that he had these two bronze statue of the sisters erected. They guarded Phuket until today when Patty Larceny, that greedy goody-goody, snuck onto the island and grabbed the girls swords and all. Your mission, gumshoes: lock up Larceny, send the statues back to Thailand, and then catch that crazed crime creator Carmen Sandiego.
I just adore these sisters. They're pretty, but they're dangerous. Just like me!
But always remember, dear, they are good guys, and you're a bad guy. Now, listen. Sail off the Río de la Plata to the capital of Uruguay. Hide the Heroines behind the Gaucho statue. It's a bronze monument to these hard riding horsemen.
I know what Gauchos are. They're cowboys.
That's right, Patty, dear. Now, quit showing off and shove off.
RRockapella
Sassy Sisters!
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego's failance of felonious flimflammers has struck again. This time, They've pinched a plane in Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh City, still widely known by its former name Saigon, is home to Vietnam's Military Museum. The museum is a tribute to victory after a long history of occupation. This Southeast Asian country outlasted four major military powers: China, Japan, France, and the U.S.A., finally unifying in 1976 when the last Americans left. One of the Military Museum's proudest showpieces is a captured F-5 Freedom Fighter Jet, complete with a loaded 20-millimeter nose gun. Well, the gun is gone, guys, and so is the plane. It's attached to Robocrook. Carmen's mechanical marauder crept into the cockpit, revved the engines, and took off. Your mission, gumshoes: deplane Robocrook, return the jet to Ho Chi Minh City, and then capture Carmen Sandiego.
Chief, what's with the fruit here?
Greg, is this one of your practical jokes?
No, Chief! No way! You made me promise, no more practical jokes after that disaster with the hair dryer and the 9 ferrets.
Ooh! Then it must be Carmen Sandiego who's behind this! (laughs like a maniac) Well! If this is the way she wants it, I'm going to fight fire with fire!
Robo, those ACME agents are closing in. Head for an African capital located on a large river called the Zaire.
Affirmative. It's in a country that's also called Zaire. Was the river named after the country?
No, it's the other way around. Zaire is the Portuguese version of a Kikongo word that means large river.
So, the country called Large River is on a large river that's called Large River? That is very logical. What is the meaning of Kikongo?
It's one of the national languages spoken in Zaire, but the official language is French because it was once a Belgian colony.
Orders received. I'm on my way.
RRockapella
(each time the Freedom Fighter Jet is revealed in the 2nd round)
Filched Fighter!
$10 headsets!
Off we go into the wild blue yonder! ("The U.S. Air Force")
Leavin' on a Jet Plane! (John Denver song)
Be all that you can be! (Army jingle)
(Robo is revealed, to Greg's surprise)
WHOA!!! WHOA!!! Oh, my goodness!
RRockapella
(singing) Robocrook! YOU'VE WON!! (sings their fanfare)
(Ricky goes to the chain, when the confetti is ready to fall)
(races to Ricky, pushing him back to his podium) Wait! Wait! (laughs) Go back and... some of this! (Ricky finishes getting confetti) There you go. Now come over here. (he and Ricky walk up to the chain)
This is Lynne Thigpen speaking for Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and remember: We're on the case like fleas on Lassie, with better ratings than Degrassi.
NOTE: Tahare Campbell was eliminated from that episode, but only due to a geographical error, he returned in the Season 3 episode The Glacier Erasure
Rat, that Yeti is drawing too much attention. Head for the Atlantic Coast of the United States. Hide out in Grover's Mill, a small town east of Princeton.
Aw, don't send me to the states, Carmen.
You'll like it. The place is famous for a big media hoax. It happened on Halloween Eve in 1938. People were listening to their radios when they heard a report that space creatures were invading near Grover's Mill.
Gee, I didn't know Kneemoi hung out in the Garden State.
It wasn't Kneemoi. It was a radio drama, but lots of people thought it was true and panicked.
Geez, if I could get that kind of attention, just think. Newspapers, magazines, CNN--
FBI, criminal court, jail.
Yeah. Yeah. I'll stay outta sight.
Tahare, we're gonna start with you. You have 75 crime bucks. How much did you risk?
TTahare
(reveals his wager) I risked 50.
50 crime bucks. What'd ya say?
TTahare
(reveals his answer) I said the Aegean Sea.
Sorry. It is not the Aegean Sea.
RRockapella
(sings to the tune of "Puff the Magic Dragon") Puff the Magic Yeti!
The is Lynne Thigpen speaking for "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego" and remember, stealing never grants your wishes. You end up washing jailhouse dishes. (Due to a factual error in this game, Tahare Campbell has been invited to play a new game in our next season.)
And this is Patty Larceny, Carmen's sneaky sophomore snitcher.
RRockapella
(singing) P-P-P-Patty
Her last known whereabouts: Edinburgh, Scotland. Bobby the Dog belonged to a shepherd named John Grey. On market days, Grey and Bobby always stopped for lunch at a tavern across the street from Greyfriars Church. When Grey died in 1858 and was buried in the churchyard, the dog refused to leave his master's grave. For 14 years, Bobby left only once daily to eat at the tavern. When Bobby finally went to doggy heaven, friends built a statue of him near the churchyard. And, it stood there until today when Patty, armed with a heavy duty leash, tempted the terrier with a savory smelling dog biscuit. First, he resisted her advances, but then she collared him and walked him away. Gumshoes, you've got to find out where that...
RRockapella
(singing) Woo-woo-ooo-oo
Carmen, this bronze dog is awfully heavy and he doesn't even know any tricks.
Don't whine, Patty dear. The Gumshoes have sniffed you out. Go to an island nation east of Mozambique.
Hey, I'll stash the loot there.
You won't be the first. Pirates use this island as a base in the 17th and 18th centuries. It's also famous for its chameleons-- lizards who can change color.
If I were a chameleon, I'd go for a nice floral print.
Your color's going to be jail cell gray if you don't get moving. Now, scoot.
(as the Chief, Greg and the gumshoes travel to Denver, Colorado)
Oh, this guy is such a good driver.
He knows how to stay on a straight line. That's for sure.
And this is Eartha Brute, Carmen Sandiego's brawny brawling burglaress.
RRockapella
(singing) Eartha Brute HUH!
Her last known whereabouts: Western Pennsylvania. In 1935, department store owner Edgar Kaufmann commissioned architect Frank Lloyd Wright to build a vacation home near a waterfall on Bear Run. Wright surprised Kaufmann with a plan to build a house directly over the waterfall. The building called Falling Water was completed in 1939. One scholar called Falling Water a complete masterpiece of 20th century art. Well, today, that complete masterpiece is completely gone because Eartha barreled up Bear Run, admired the architecture, and bolted with the building, waterfall and all. Gumshoes, it's a fright when...
RRockapella
(singing) Woo-woo-ooo-oo
(while Greg, the Gumshoes, and the Chief travel to Algeria, Greg and the Chief hum "Wait for the Wagon")
GCGreg and the Chief
Wait for the Wagon.
Wait for the Wagon.
Wait for the Wagon,
and we'll all take a ride!
The M'zab (Shoeprints are revealed)
RRockapella
Whatever! (Greg laughs)
I just wanna make sure that everybody is really ready for this. Okay? So everybody, repeat after me! It's time...!
AAudience
Carmen Sandiego!
AAudience
Carmen Sandiego!
AAudience
Carmen Sandiego!
Lemme hear you cheer! Let's do this! (to Kavir) C'mon, man!
(the audience cheers)
And this is Top Grunge, Carmen Sandiego's festering farrago of filth.
RRockapella
(singing) Top Grunge
His last known whereabouts: West Point on New York's Hudson River. The U.S. Military Academy was founded here in 1802. Among its nearly 50,000 graduates, presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Students are called cadets and after graduation, they become second lieutenants in the U.S. Army. The first graduating class consisted of ten men. Nowadays, more than 900 men and women graduate each year. Or they did until today when Top Grunge rode into formation. Dreaming his dreams of military glory, Grunge hopped on his chopper and heisted the whole academy. Gumshoes, you've got to clean up this...
RRockapella
(singing) Woo-woo-ooo-oo
Greg, you'd better come into my office.
Yeah, Chief. I'll be right there. You guys, if you'll excuse me for just a moment. The Chief obviously is a need of me. (enters the office, where the Chief has ping-pong balls on her desk) What's up, Chief?
Uh, Greg, something weird is going on. I can't explain it, but a certain thing happens whenever anybody says Carmen's last name, so from now on, it's just Carmen.
Okay. Okay. Don't worry, Chief, I won't say "Carmen Sandiego".
(ping-pong balls fall from the ceiling onto the Chief)
Thanks, Greg. I knew I could count on you.
I'm sorry. Never again. I promise. I won't say "Carmen Sandi... armpit." Carmen Sandieggsalad. Carmen Sandielephant.
Oh, for goodness sake, Greg! I keep thinking you're about to say "Carmen Sandiego".
(ping-pong balls fall)
Uh, uh, Chief, do you think maybe this is maybe a good time for the home viewer contest?
(Greg and the Chief do the contest rules)
Great. See ya later. (exits the office, but the Chief stops him)
Uh, Greg. Greg, one more thing.
You-- You know the squeak in my chair.
I wonder if you could just check it out for me.
Squeak in a chair? All right. (sits down)
Right there. (to the ceiling) Carmen Sandiego!
(nothing happens)
Nope. No squeak that I could find. I gotta get back to work. See ya. (exits the office)
(the Chief sits back down at her desk and the ping-pong balls fall again)
(Greg returns to HQ and looks up at the ceiling to see if ping-pong balls would fall, but they don't until one does when Greg leaves for the Phone Tap)
And this is Wonder Rat, Carmen's snout-faced, self-promoting crony in crime.
RRockapella
(singing) Wonder Rat
His last known whereabouts: Cody, Wyoming. Showman Buffalo Bill Cody founded this town. His traveling Wild West Show made stars out of Annie Oakley and Chief Sitting Bull. The show's memorabilia is now displayed at Cody's Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Some say Bill's greatest achievement was turning himself into a legend. Well, oneself promoter deserves another and the other showed up today. When Wonder Rat, Carmen's second rate superhero stole the whole town. Wyoming is wailing and we've got to whip that wonder weasel. Gumshoes, your job is to wrangle that rat and his...
RRockapella
(singing) Woo-woo-ooo-oo
...ROARING RODENT ROAD SHOW!
This is Lynne Thigpen for Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?. And remember: Our gumshoes are strong and steady, and some them have moms named Betty. Not mine but some of them do.
And this is Wonder Rat, Carmen's wicked whiskered windbag.
RRockapella
(singing) Wonder Rat
Chief His last known whereabouts: the Persian Gulf. The Persian Gulf is an arm of the Arabian Sea. Bordered by oil-rich nations like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, the Gulf is the key passageway for shipping billions of dollars in oil and natural gas to the world's nations. That's one reason the region has seen its share of war in recent years. But today, the gulf is gone. Wonder Rat burrowed his way to the beach. He figured in his twisted mind that if it was worth worrying over it must be worth stealing. So he drained every drop. Gumshoes, bring an end to his evil caper...
RRockapella
(singing) Woo-woo-ooo-oo
...THE PERSIAN SUBVERSION or THE GRABBING OF THE GULF!
Hiya, Chief. Listen, I was expectin' you to call me in.
Well, I couldn't, Greg. My intercom doesn't work, and look, (shows her magnifying glass) my magnifying glass won't magnify. The blotter won't blot. Well, I can't even open my drawers.
Chief, listen. Maybe your desk is outta gas. Now, when was the last time you had it filled?
Well, you know, I've been so busy, I haven't even thought about it lately.
Look here, this is your problem. It's bone dry, huh? I'll fill it up for you. (taps the left side of her desk to summon the monitor she had previously used for the Photo Recon segment in Season 2)
Oh, thanks. And while you do that, I'll tell the home viewers at home about the contest. (Greg puts a gas pump in the top of the monitor to have her desk filled with gasoline and cleans the "windshield"; during this the contest is announced)
Heck of a deal. All right, uh, pull thing there, Chief. (removes the gas pump and the Chief starts her "car" and Greg taps the monitor to descend back down) All right. Safe as always.
(hands Greg his tip) There you go. Keep the change.
(turns on her "headlights") You bet.
(as the Chief drives off) And don't play your radio too loud. You know what happened last time. (the Chief waves goodbye and so does Greg) See ya. (exits the office with the gas pump)
You'd better take the gulf on the lam.
I am on the lam, Carmen. I've been in 4 countries in the last 8 minutes.
I mean the Lam Sea. That's what the local people used to call it, anyway. The sea is officially part of Russia, so you see its modern Russian name on maps. Head for Sakhalin Island.
Gee, you'll think I'll run into any of my faithful devoted fans, Carmen?
No, they're both in prison, but keep your claws out of the water. The sea is full of crabs.
Hey, crabs love me! I'll get a crustacean ovation! (laughs)
(as the Chief, Greg, and the gumshoes travel to Glasgow, Scotland)
I love drivin' this car, Chief.
Well, just don't push the ejector seat like you did the last time.
(Wonder Rat tells Diana to go to North America)
DDiana
We're goin' to North America!
DGDiana and Greg
(point to the camera) We're goin' to North America!
And this is Kneemoi, that anti-social alien from Carmen Sandiego's band of baddies.
RRockapella
(singing) Kneemoi
Her last known whereabouts: Australia. Before the arrival of Europeans, Australia's Aborigines lived in small communal groups which hunted and gathered food. As they traveled from place to place, tribal elders used songs of myth and history as their oral maps. The song lines, called corroboree, are still sung by some present-day Aborigines. Or they were until today when Kneemoi absconded with the songs. She thinks they'd make great disco hits on her home planet Roddenberry. Gumshoes, you got to nail Kneemoi, catch Carmen, and put an end to...
RRockapella
(singing) Woo-woo-ooo-oo
...THE OUTBACK SOUNDTRACK HIJACK!
And this is Sarah Nade, Carmen Sandiego's screeching cyberpunk scofflaw.
RRockapella
(singing) Sarah Nade
Her last known whereabouts: northern Israel. In 1910, a group of Jews from Russia founded the Degania Kibbutz. A collective farmer owned the property together and worked for the good of the community. As more Jews moved to the area, more kibbutzim, that's the plural of kibbutz, were founded. Today, there are over 200 kibbutzim, home to roughly one in 30 Israelis and Degania is still going strong. Or it was until today when Sarah Nade jammed up the Jordan River. She lifted all the livestock. She pilfered all the produce. She inveigled all the industry. That's right, she keelhauled the whole kibbutz. Gumshoes, you've got to free that farm and factory, and tell Sarah Nade...
RRockapella
(singing) Woo-woo-ooo-oo
...COME BACK WITH THAT KIBBUTZ, TOOTS!
And this is Patty Larceny, that antisocial adolescent from Carmen Sandiego's crew of cretins.
RRockapella
(singing) P-P-P-Patty
Her last known whereabouts: Kazanluk, Bulgaria, The Valley of the Roses is a rural area near Kazanluk. For more than 200 years, the roses grown here have been the world's prime source of rose oil, a precious basic ingredient in perfume. Top perfume makers from around the world pay up to $2,500 a pound for Kazanluk rose oil. Or they did until today when Patty Larceny slipped into the valley, flounced furtively through the fields, and bagged every last bud. Gumshoes, you've got to catch that crooked kid and crush...
RRockapella
(singing) Woo-woo-ooo-oo
...THE KAZANLUK COLOGNE CAPER!
And this is Vic the Slick, Carmen's pocket-picking pinchmeister.
RRockapella
(singing) Vic the Slick
His last known whereabouts: Patagonia in Southern Argentina. Patagonia's Los Glaciares National Park is home to Moreno Glacier, a 22-mile long, three mile wide sheet of ice up to 200 feet thick. At the front of the glacier, a dramatic cliff rises from the water of Lake Argentina. Huge chunks of ice regularly break off and float away but even so, the glacier is getting bigger with every snowfall. Or it did until today when Vic the Slick hauled it off. He's planning to melt the ice down and make billions on Vic's Patagonian bottled water. Here's your job, gumshoes. Catch Carmen, stop the slick one and undo...
RRockapella
(singing) Woo-woo-ooo-oo
We made a mistake, Tahare, the last time you were on this show last season. So we've asked you to come back. So good luck to you. Thanks for comin' back. Ladies and gentlemen, Tahare's here.
They're after you, Vic. Take the glacier to the last African colony to declare independence from Britain. A small landlocked kingdom in southern Africa.
Landlocked? This ice is tough haulin' on land, Carmster.
Hire some help. Pay them with emalangeni. That's the country's currency. King Mswati III is pictured on the bills.
Hey, maybe I could sell the king this burg, huh?
Can you bargain and speak Swati?
Eh, no, but good taste is a universal language.
Then, you're universally illiterate.
(as the Chief, Greg, and the gumshoes travel to Tianjin, China)
Uh, Greg, isn't this where we're supposed to meet the ferry?
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