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A Tall Totem Tale is the twentieth episode of Season 1 of the series Little Einsteins.
However, in production order, it's the twenty-first episode of Season 1.
Summary[]
The team is in Alaska, in Totem Pole Forest, looking at some tall totem poles. They meet a small totem pole. Then they decide to help the little totem pole grow bigger so that way it can grow like the rest of the totem poles. But then it gets washed out to sea and lands on an ice floe! So the team must bring the totem back so it can grow big with the other totem poles.
Information[]
In order to make Little Totem Pole grow bigger, First: You must help Annie sing the song of saving Little Totem, and it has the picture of Annie. Second: When entering the Ice Tunnel, the heroes got separated in different places! So you have to help Leo and Little Totem Pole pat to the beat to reunite the team and Little Totem Pole now has the picture of Leo. Third: When Little Totem Pole can no longer fit inside Rocket, he decides to climb the mountain, but there are polar bears! So you've got to help Quincy play his flute to make all polar bears sleep and Little Totem Pole now has the picture of Quincy! Fourth: When Rocket and Little Totem Pole are sliding down the Polar Bear Mountain, there are lots of trees to block! So you have to help June make a swooshing dance to avoid the trees, and Little Totem Pole now has the pictures of June and Rocket on top and he now has colors to become part of the Totem Pole Forest!
Plot[]
The episode starts with the Little Einsteins exploring at the totem pole forest in Alaska to look for totem poles. Soon, they enter the totem pole forest and they heard some totem pole and Quincy follow the whole team into the totem pole forest while all of the totem poles are singing and dancing. First, Quincy told the first totem pole a story about a big bear who stole the sunshine, then, Annie told the second totem pole another story while Quincy told the second totem pole's legend about an eagle who protected a river full of fish. Soon, June heard another totem pole who had no pictures on it, because it's just tiny and then the whole team came over and introduce little totem pole and Quincy greet little totem pole, although, June knew that little totem pole wants to tell the story but there are no stories to tell from little totem pole as Quincy agrees on adding a story to tell to grow up to be a tall totem pole. Soon, Little Totem Pole roll down the mountain and onto the ice floe that drifts away from the whole team. So Leo puts out his baton and he knew that they've got a mission about saving little totem pole and put up some pictures to tell some story from the whole team while bringing back to the totem pole forest. So Leo put out his baton and told everyone that they’ve got a mission about saving little totem pole, so they all head inside Rocket, buckle their seatbelts, do the short version of the pat sequence and blast off.
After they blast off, Annie call to Little Totem pole by singing the little totem pole song, listen while Rocket puts out his look and listen scope while hovering over the ice floe, Although, the first location of the ice floe had some seals, and the second location had some pods of whales, soon, they heard little totem pole who is on the third location of the ice floe. Soon, they arrived on the totem pole ice floe, but the ice floe is getting smaller and smaller while the ice is melting on the icy water, soon, Annie deploy Rocket's clapper catcher and catch little totem pole and landed inside the ice tunnel and then head outside of Rocket. Once they made it out of the Rocket, A picture of Annie pops out of little totem pole, because she sang to help find little totem pole who rolled down the mountain and onto the ice floe and rescue by Rocket's clapper catcher while little totem pole's ice floe is melting on the icy water.
Soon, they notice that there's a hole on the wall which lead inside the ice cave, so they all head inside the ice tunnel, then, Annie went with Rocket, June went with Quincy and Leo went with little totem pole as they got separated from three different paths while Leo told everyone to stick together so they don't get lost, because this ice cave had lots of twisting and turning paths. And unfortunately, when they got to the center of the path, they notice that they all gone into different routes. Then, little totem pole got an idea about calling to their friends by tapping to the rhythm so the whole team can follow the sound and find them. Soon, they all pat to the rhythm loudly. Soon, Quincy and June arrived at the scene as they heard listened to the pat of the rhythm. Then, Little totem pole, June, Quincy, and Leo all pat to the rhythm to call Annie and Rocket, soon, Annie and Rocket hear them and arrived at the scene. Soon, Leo points out that there's the end of the tunnel and they all head out of the ice tunnel. Once they're out of the ice tunnel, a picture of Leo pops out little totem pole, because Leo patted to the beat of the rhythm after they got separated inside the ice cave.
After the ice tunnel, they arrived at the polar bear mountain and Quincy realized that there are big bears at the mountain. Then, Rocket knew that it's a great idea to fly over the polar bear mountain. Soon, they all head back to Rocket, but little totem pole is too tall to fit through Rocket and now he had to climb polar bear mountain all by himself. So Quincy comes to little totem pole while Rocket and the others fly up to the top of the polar bear mountain and wait for them as a signal. Soon, little totem pole saw the first polar bear as Quincy uses his binoculars. So Quincy uses his flute to play the little totem pole song to help the polar bear fall asleep. Then, he uses his binoculars to see if it work and it did. While they continue to climb the polar bear mountain, they saw a bigger polar bear and Quincy play his flute again to help the bigger polar bear fall asleep again and the bigger polar fell asleep. Once they're almost near to the top of the polar bear mountain, they spotted the biggest polar bear of all so Quincy play his flute one last time to help the biggest polar bear fall asleep one last time and the biggest polar bear fell asleep. Soon, Quincy and little totem pole reached to the top of the polar bear mountain while Rocket landed on top of the polar bear mountain before all of the other team heads out and soon, a picture of Quincy pops out of little totem pole because Quincy played his flute to make all polar bears fall asleep while walking to the top of the polar bear mountain. Soon, they saw totem pole forest and little totem pole slides down the mountain, because he is so excited to go home, so they all head back to Rocket and he deployed his skis to follow little totem pole down the mountain. While skiing down the mountain, they notice that the mountain had a lots of trees up ahead as they almost crash! So June had to swoosh to the beat to help little totem pole avoid all of the trees by moving her hands side to side. Soon, little totem pole is swooshing to the beat with June and she continues to swoosh to the beat until they reached to the bottom of the mountain.
Soon, they all head out of Rocket and soon, a picture of June pops out little totem pole, because June helped little totem pole swooshed to the beat to avoid all of the trees while sliding down the mountain. Then, a picture of Rocket pops out because Rocket followed little totem pole and also helped swooshed to the beat.
Afterwards, they all head back to totem pole forest and Little Totem pole is back home as the other totem poles are so excited to see little totem pole and soon, Little totem pole grew up and add colors to it. Quincy told that the other totem poles want to hear little totem pole's story. First, Quincy told a story about Annie sang his song to find little totem pole after rolling down the mountain and onto the ice floe as Annie sang a song about finding little totem pole. Second, Quincy told story about Leo and little totem pole patted the rhythm to save the whole team inside the ice tunnel after they got separated from three routes of the ice tunnel while Leo patted to the rhythm. Third, Quincy told a story about Quincy and little totem pole heading up the polar bear mountain and Quincy played his flute to make the polar bears fall asleep and Quincy play his flute from the story. Lastly, Quincy told a story about June and Rocket helped little totem pole swooshed down the mountain and avoid all those trees as June demonstrate the swoosh dance. And Quincy concludes little totem pole's story on how little totem pole got back home to the totem pole forest. Then, Quincy knew that the other totem poles loved Little totem pole's story and he knew that Little totem pole had the best totem pole story ever! Mission completion!
Characters[]
Main Characters[]
Minor Characters[]
- Other Totem Poles (Only Appearance)
- Little Totem Pole (Only Appearance)
- Seal (First Appearance)
- Whales (Last Appearance)
- Polar Bears (First Appearance/Villain)
Art[]
- Art: Pacific Northwest Totem Poles
Music[]
Music Put Together[]
- Orchestral Suite Number 2 in B Minor BWV 1067 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Music Breakdown[]
- Orchestral Suite Number 2 in B Minor BWV 1067 Movement 1: Overture By Johann Sebastian Bach
- Orchestral Suite Number 2 in B Minor BWV 1067 Movement 2: Rondeau By Johann Sebastian Bach
- Orchestral Suite Number 2 in B Minor BWV 1067 Movement 3: Sarabande By Johann Sebastian Bach
- Orchestral Suite Number 2 in B Minor BWV 1067 Movement 4: Bourrée By Johann Sebastian Bach
- Orchestral Suite Number 2 in B Minor BWV 1067 Movement 5: Polonaise By Johann Sebastian Bach
- Orchestral Suite Number 2 in B Minor BWV 1067 Movement 6: Minuet By Johann Sebastian Bach
- Orchestral Suite Number 2 in B Minor BWV 1067 Movement 7: Badinerie By Johann Sebastian Bach
Song[]
Locations[]
Running Gag[]
Rocket's Transformation[]
Rocket's Tool[]
Objects Used[]
Outfit Used[]
Post-Curtain Call Sequence[]
- Little Totem Pole dances in the stage.
Who is in the center of the episode[]
Quotes[]
- Annie: ♪Little Totem Pole, listen! Here we come to save you!♪♪
Notes[]
- During the only Short Pat and Blast Off Sequence, it doesn't cut to Rocket shaking during the fifth through eighth pats, instead, it still shows Leo patting. That means that the entire Pat and Blastoff Sequence is shown indoors.
- This is also the only short Pat and Blastoff Off Sequence where Leo says “Come On!” before going inside Rocket.
Trivia[]
- This is the second episode to use Bach Music.
- This is the last episode to use the classic short blast off.
- Orchestral Suite Number 2 in B Minor BWV Movement is used again in Knock on Wood.
Error/Goof/Static[]
- Just life before, Quincy has Annie's dress and shoes when he says the title card, but when she says "And.." after June announces the art, he suddenly has his own clothes.
- In this close up of Rocket, his Antler is missing.
