“Crossing the Four Seas” (纵横四海, Zònghéng Sìhǎi) is the 42nd episode of Joys of Seasons.
Weslie, Paddi, and Sparky come across a pirate ship and get to be pirates for a day.
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Sparky controls an RC boat and sends it flying onto Paddi, who is eating an ice cream cone. The boat lands on Paddi’s head, and Paddi becomes visible sad.
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Weslie, Paddi, and Sparky are all walking on the beach during sunset when Paddi trips over and notices a large ship on the water. The three goats take a closer look at the vessel, which Weslie mentions must be inhabited by pirates who travel the four seas, risking their lives fighting monsters to look for all sorts of treasure.
The three goats come back wearing pirate outfits and board the ship. Inside, the goats see a trio of pirates who are fast asleep and wake them up. The pirates panic, thinking the goats are cops who are after them, but Weslie explains that they want to be pirates like them. The pirates’ leader, a rhino, agrees to the deal, giving the goats little red slips to put gold coins into so that they can give them to the pirates.
The goats work on piloting the ship when the pirate trio appears, and the rhino captain asks them to do chores around the ship. The goats are bothered that they have to do chores such as cleaning the ship and checking the dirty laundry, all the while annoying the pirates as they do so.
The goats are all resting on a hay bed, and Sparky asks if this is really the way that pirates live. Paddi adds that he would have expected to go on a pirate adventure at this point, and Weslie suggests they should move out of the ship. Mr. Ruffy interrupts them, telling them to prepare the weapons since they are getting ready to go on a trip.
The ship arrives on snowy grounds, and Sparky asks Mr. Ruffy if they will be searching for treasure, to which Ruffy says no. The warthog pirate tells Sparky that they will be restocking supplies instead. The group approaches a village, and the rhino captain asks the goats to bring out all the villagers. As the pirates try to persuade the scared villagers to give them all their valuables, Sparky picks up on the fact that they might be doing something wrong, while the warthog pirate tries to convince them that the villagers love it. Weslie comes up with the idea to tell the pirates about a nearby castle - Wolf Castle - with a lot of valuable treasures in it.
The pirates go to find the castle. When they arrive, Wolffy pleads with them to forgive him, and the captain tells him they want his valuables and food. Wolffy gladly serves the pirates a salad before telling them about Goat Village and convincing them that the goats inhabiting it all hide lots of treasures. Weslie says the security at Goat Village is quite tight, but then Wolffy points out that the goat kids all live in the village, meaning they should have no trouble getting in.
As the gang grows closer to the village, Weslie convinces the pirate trio to get some rest, and then tells Wolffy that if he doesn’t try to capture him or the other goats, he will help him attack the pirates; that way, Wolffy can help himself to the riches in the pirates’ ship. Wolffy agrees to the deal, and when the gang reaches the Goat Village gate, Wolffy sets up a cannon to destroy the gate before trying to attack the pirates, only for the pirates to beat him up, recognizing that he’s trying to rebel against them. Wolffy then lights a match and uses it to set off his explosives and get the pirates off his back; from within the village, Mr. Slowy sees the explosion, finds the goats knocked out, and has some paramedics carry them off.
Later, the goats drag the pirate trio to a mob of angry rabbits who beat them up. The rabbits then try to go after the goats, convinced that they were helping the pirates. The goats run away, with Sparky saying he never wants to be a pirate again.
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- Wolffy is briefly heard whistling “Biekan Wo Zhi Shi Yi Zhi Yang” before the pirates break into his castle.
Cultural references[]
- One of the pirates the goats meet is named Mr. Lufei (路飞先生, “Lùfēi xiānshēng”; renamed Mr. Ruffy in the Disney English dub) and wears a red vest, blue pants, and a straw hat. This name and design are a reference to Luffy, the main character of the One Piece manga and anime series.
- The pirate trio later reappears in “Mighty Beard” (The Happy Diary, episode 10).
- The English YouTube upload contains “Don’t be a pirate unless you’re Jack Sparrow” in its title. This is a reference to Jack Sparrow, the main character of Pirates of the Caribbean.
- This is one of several appearances throughout Joys of Seasons of a potted cactus shaped like a Cactuar from the Final Fantasy video game series.
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