Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego and her load of lily-livered louts have lashed out again. This time, they bagged a bull in Baghdad. The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is often called The Cradle of Western Civilization. Located mostly in Iraq, it was home to some of the earliest known human settlements, the ancient kingdom of Mesopotamia. It began around 5000 BC and at its peak, the Mesopotamian city of Ur was a rich metropolis. But empires have a way to crumbling to sand and all that's left of Mesopotamia are a few of its treasures. One of them is on display at the Iraq museum in Baghdad, a beautiful golden bull's head dating back to 2450 BC. It was unearthed this century from a royal Mesopotamian tomb. But yesterday, that elasticized alien Kneemoi stretched her way into the museum, bagged the bull's head, and bounded out of the country. She claimed the bull is the spitting image of her mother. Gumshoes, your mission is to nail Kneemoi, get the bull's golden head back to Baghdad, and cap Carmen Sandiego's career in crime.
S2 E34Who Bagged the Bull?
S2 E35My Cup Runneth Away
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego's squad of squalid scuzzballs has struck again. This time, they finagled their furtive fingers into Zurich, Switzerland. Soccer is the world's most popular sport, and the dream of all national soccer teams is to win a World Cup. A global tournament is held every four years to determine a champion. The last World Cup matches were held in Italy in 1990, and the championship game was viewed by over 1.3 billion fans. In 1994, the games will be hosted by one of the only countries in the world where soccer isn't all that popular, the USA. The World Cup Trophy itself contains about 10 pounds of 18-karat gold, and it's kept in Zurich, Switzerland. The team that wins the tournament doesn't get the real trophy, they get a less-expensive copy. Hmm. What if we gave all our winners not a real trip anywhere in North America but just a video of one? Well, it just wouldn't be the Acme way. Well, today, the real trophy was swiped. Double Trouble, Carmen's matching makers of mayhem, zipped into Zurich, crept up on the cup, and then snatched it away. They renamed it the Trouble Trophy and plan to hold and international crime tourney. Your mission, gumshoes: bust Double Trouble on the double, return the World Cup Trophy to Zurich, and then capture Carmen Sandiego.
S2 E36Tsealing the Tsar Bell
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego and her confederacy of con artists have struck again. This time, they KO'd Moscow's ancient walled fortress, The Kremlin. The belfry and bell tower of Ivan the Great are the tallest structures in The Kremlin. What's inside the belfry? Bells. 21 richly, ornamented bells hanging the tower and one more sits on a stone pedestal at the bottom. That's the big guy, the Tsar Bell. Cast in the 1730s, it weighed more than 200 tons, and is decorated with images of Russian royalty, a Tsar and Tsarina. It's the largest chimer in the world, and you'd think it would stay put, but no. When irresistible force meets immovable objects, something's gotta give. What gave? The bell at the base. Eartha Brute broke in and stole the Tsar Bell. Gumshoes, your mission is to bring in Eartha, ring in the bell, and ding out Carmen Sandiego once and for all.
S2 E37Beach Blanket Bye-Bye
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego's nest of nefarious ne'er-do-wells has struck again. This time, they scammed the sands from a beach in Brazil. For the residents of Rio de Janeiro, the beach is the place to see and be seen. (Rockapella sings "The Girl From Ipanema) And that song you're hearing, The Girl From Ipanema, made the beach in Rio's Ipanema neighborhood the most famous of all. Nestled between the Atlantic and a beautiful lagoon, you'll find white sands, wild waves, and beautiful people all surrounded by some of the highest priced real estate in South America. But now the girls of Ipanema have stopped walking because the beach is no more. Patty Larceny, Carmen Sandiego's sweetfaced scoundrel, surfed in, scarfed up the sands, and sambaed away. Your mission, gumshoes: put Patty in the pin, return the beach to Ipanema, and then capture Carmen Sandiego.
Patty, they're after you. Head for one of the states where Yellowstone National Park is found. Hide out in the Silent City of Rocks.
Gee, Carmen, it sounds kind of spooky.
Don't worry. It's just a granite formation. Pioneers in the 1800s thought the rocks look like a city. You can still see their names written on the granite, and legend says a bandit hid $90,000 in stolen gold nearby.
Wow! A bandit! I feel right at home. Has anyone ever found the gold?
Not yet. Bring a metal detector.
S2 E38Where's Dave (Statue of Limitations)
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego and her ring of robbers have ransacked again. This time, they made off with a marble masterpiece from Florence, Italy. In 1501, the artist Michelangelo acquired a huge chunk of damaged marble, someone else had been carving and then abandoned, Michelangelo took his chisel to it and carved the biblical hero David. Almost instantly recognized as a masterwork, the statue remains one of Europe's greatest treasures. It stood in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence for over a hundred years until yesterday when Eartha Brute went gaga over the marbled marbles and made off with him. Florentines watched in horror as she stomps away with a big bare buddy. Gumshoes, you've got to save Dave, unearth Eartha, and then capture Carmen Sandiego.
S2 E39The Perilous Penguin Pilferage
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego's detachment of dastardly delinquent has struck again. This time, they pestered the penguins in Antarctica. Penguins are flightless birds native to the colder parts of Earth's southern hemisphere. Antarctica's penguin population is about 65 million. That's more penguins than France have people. Now using their wings as flippers, penguins are superb underwater swimmers. They can dive to depths of hundreds of feet in search of food or make speedy spectacular leaps from water to avoid predators. But they weren't fast enough to escape. Robocrook, disguised in a tuxedo, he crisscrossed the continent and pinched every last penguin. Your mission, gumshoes: round up Robocrook, put back the penguins, and then bring Carmen Sandiego to justice.
Without Carmen to guide me, I am like a screw without a driver. You'll find her in the U.S.A.
S2 E40Churchill Downer
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego wicked wild persons have wangled another whopper. This time, the clobbered Kentucky. Louisville, Kentucky is home to the famous racetrack called Churchill Downs. Each year on the first Saturday in May, the country's finest three-year-old thoroughbred race horses gather at the downs to compete in the Kentucky Derby. Begun in 1875, the Run of the Roses is the oldest continually held horse race in the country. It is also the most glamorous. For three weeks before the race, Louisville is turned into a festival of balls and barbecues, concerts, competitions, galas, and parades. But yesterday, things got yucky in Kentucky. Patty Larceny, that sugarcoated pill, lassoed every last thoroughbred. She had just finished reading National Velvet and decided she just couldn't live without her own stable full of steeds. Gumshoes, your mission is to pick up Patty, put back the heisted horses, and then put down Carmen Sandiego.
S2 E41The Dog Race Rat Case
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego and her notorious noxious ne'er-do-wells have nabbed again. This time, they've dogged Alaska. The famed Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race named the ghost town of Iditarod has been run every year since 1973. The route runs more than a thousand miles between Anchorage and Nome. It started because of a 1925 diphtheria epidemic. Dog-sled drivers called mushers ran medicine to remote northern parts of Alaska. The epidemic ended, but the race lived on. Every March, several dozen ushers meat for what may be the most grueling competitive event. They drive their specially trained dog reams for nearly three weeks, sleeping as little as possible, conserving body heat and fighting blizzards, thin ice, and charging moose. In 1990, four-time winner Susan Butcher set a record for the run: 11 days, one hour, and 53 minutes. But if you thinking about entering the competition this year, you can leave your huskies at home, because last night, by the light of the arctic moon, Wonder Rat swiped all the sleds and dog teams. That annoying little vermin will do anything to promote himself. Now he wants to have his own rat race. Gumshoes, your mission is to trap that rat, get the sleds back on track, and then catch crime queen Carmen Sandiego.
S2 E42Topkapi Turban Topper
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego's mob of militant malefactors have marauded again. This time, they struck Istanbul, Turkey. Begun in the middle of the 15th century, Topkapi Palace was home to the ruling Sultans of the Ottoman Empire for almost four centuries. Today, Topkapi houses one of Turkey's finest museums. Amongst the riches displayed there is the turban of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman warrior, lawmaker, and statesman, whose picture can be seen in the U.S. Capitol Building. But now, Suleiman's topper has been taken. That flashy fleecer Vic the Slick, always on the lookout for an expensive-looking fashion accessory, crept in and cribbed it. Your mission, gumshoes: outslick the Vic, recapture the turban of Suleiman, and then bring Carmen Sandiego to justice.
Vic, they're on to you. Head north of the Arctic Circle to Auyuittuq National Park. It's in a Canadian district.
G-G-Geez, Carmen, sounds a little c-c-cold.
A little cold? Auyuittuq is an Inuit word that means "the land that never melts". The ground freezes at 1,000 feet down. I hear there are no trees at all.
Sounds like I'll have the joint to myself.
Nope. It's home to the Inuit and Dene people. It was named for an Englishman who got lost there, looking for a passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Lost, huh? Eh, couldn't I just go to Baltimore?
Sorry, bub. Get out your polyester earmuffs.
S2 E43The Oranges of Wrath
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego and her noxious knavish nincompoops have naughtied again. This time, the state of Florida caught their plaques. The ridge area of Florida is one of the most important citrus-growing regions in the world, producing one-quarter of all citrus fruits grown. We're talking more than 200 million boxes of navels, Valencias, temples, tangerines, tangelos, red grapefruit, white grapefruit, and pineapple oranges per growing season. It's about an 8 billion dollar industry that provides over 150,000 juicy jobs in planting, picking, packing, pulping, peeling, squeezing, and freezing. If you stacked all the half gallon orange juice cartons that Florida produces in two years, you could climb that stack to the moon. Or you could have until yesterday Eartha Brute flounced into Florida, raided the ridge, and grabbed the grove. Your mission, gumshoes: bring in the Brute, get the groves back to their growers, and then corner that cunning conniver Carmen Sandiego.
S2 E44Boosting the Bounty
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego and her band of backstabbers have boosted again. This time, they sacked Miami, Florida. This Southern port is now home to a replica of the HMS Bounty. The original Bounty was the scene of a famous mutiny that took place in the South Pacific. Back in 1789, Fletcher Christian, the ship's first mate, led his men in a revolt against Captain William Bligh. When MGM was preparing to shoot its film about the mutiny, the set designers traveled to England to study the original ship's plans and captain's notes. Then, they built a new Bounty. Since then, it has traveled more than 100,000 miles including a one-year voyage to Tahiti for the filming. Today, the Bounty resides in Miami. Or it did until Double Trouble, that dastardly duplicitous do-badding duo, swept into Miami and swiped the ship. Apparently, they wanted to take the ultimate party cruise. Gumshoes, your mission is to trap those troublemakers, ship the ship back to its slip in Miami, and then bring down Carmen Sandiego.
S2 E45The Nefarious Nobel Napper
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego and her troop of traitorous troglodytes have turned up again. This time, they struck in Stockholm, Sweden. Alfred Nobel was a Swede who made his fortune by inventing dynamite and other explosives. However, he was a pacifist and was bothered by the destructiveness of his invention. That's why he gave his money away to people's who work benefited mankind, so began the Nobel Prizes. Each year at Stockholm Concert Hall, the gold medals along with millions of dollars are awarded in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology, literature, and economics. The Peace Prize is awarded in a separate ceremony in Oslo, Norway. Well, yesterday, the Peace was shattered when Vic the Slick stole into Stockholm and pilfered the Prizes. Theses medals of merit are hanging around his knavish neck as if they were just junk jewelry. Gumshoes, you must nick Vic the Slick, bring the Nobels back to Stockholm, and then manacle that maniacal mastermind Carmen Sandiego.
Carmen, babe, these prize medals look great on me. Real class.
Vic, you wouldn't know real class if it hit you in the face with a gym sock. Now, listen. Go to a money museum in a federal reserve bank.
Hey, sounds great.
It has all kinds of cash on display. Like some of the first coins ever minted, and a block of tea that was once used as currency. It's in a former capital of the Confederate States of America, and hide those medals, or ACME will be on you like that cheap suit.
Hey, I pay top dollar for this suit.
(Vic tells Josh to go to Europe; Josh is surprised to hear it)
No way!
You're kidding! What'd-- What did he say?!
We're goin' to Europe!
Chief! We're goin' to Europe!
S2 E46The Machu Picchu Pinch
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego's pack of pernicious pirates have struck again. This time, they pinched the Peruvian city of Machu Picchu. Hidden high in the Andes Mountains, the Machu Picchu ruins is one of the world's greatest archaeological treasures. Built by the Incas in the 1400s, it is often called The Lost City because it was abandoned and not rediscovered until this century. Why was it abandoned? No one knows. But now, The Lost City of the Incas is really lost. Eartha Brute, driving her customized Brute Haul Truck, four-wheeled up the Andes, packed up the Peruvian city, and drove it away. Your mission, gumshoes: unearth Eartha, return the missing Machu Picchu, and then capture Carmen Sandiego.
Hey, Carmen, those Acme guys are closing in. Where should I stash Michi Pichi?
That's Machu Picchu, Eartha. Take it to a country where everyone celebrates the new year and their birthday on a holiday called Tet.
Yeah, but Moochoo Poochoo is pretty big. Where am I gonna hide it?
Earth to Eartha. It's Machu Picchu. Take it to Hanoi. It's the oldest capital in Southeast Asia. You can hide it in one of the city's 12 beautiful lakes.
Are those lakes deep enough to hide Mongo Pongo?
MACHU PICCHU, BRUTEBRAIN, MACHU PICCHU! NOW GET OFF THE PHONE AND GO!
S2 E47Twinkle Twinkle Little Rat
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego's pack of predacious pirates has pounce again. This time, it happened in the heart of America's entertainment industry, Hollywood, California. Fame in Hollywood can be fleeting, but there's one place where stars' names really are immortal: the stretch of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street called the Walk of Fame. The names of nearly 2,000 entertainers are displayed in two and a half miles of bronze and terrazzo stars embedded in the sidewalk. The Walk honors performers from movies, TV, radio, and theater. There are current stars, stars of the past, and even the occasional animal. There's enough room left to put a new star in the pavement every month for the next 50 years. Or there was until Wonder Rat, Carmen's raunchy rodent, got busy with a toilet plunger and sucked up every last star on the sidewalk. He plans to engrave them all with his own name and logo. Your mission, gumshoes: snare Wonder Rat, return the stars to Hollywood, and then bring Carmen Sandiego to justice.
S2 E48Fortress Felony (Citadeliquency)
Gumshoes, Carmen Sandiego's tribe of truculent tricksters has struck again. This time, they've burgled a bastion in Quebec City, Canada. High above the St. Lawrence River, on the summit of Cape Diamond sits a somewhat star-shaped potrait called The Citadel. Built by the British in the early 1800s, the Citadel has thick stone walls and a magnificent defensive position above a sheer cliff. Today, it serves as the headquarters of Canada's Royal 22nd Regiment and its cannons are still fired twice daily. (explosion) There's one. (waits for second explosion but nothing happens) Oh, oh, well. It's got... but now it's famous for.. (explosion) But now this famous fortress defends no more. Robocrook, Carmen's wrecking crew CPU, trekked into Quebec City, stormed the Citadel, and carried it away. Your mission, gumshoes: ruffle up Robocrook, reset the Citadel back in Quebec City, and then bring Carmen Sandiego to justice.
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