The Story of Herbert's Peaceful Day

When Herbert disturbs the animals with his noisy antics, the animals set a challenge for a big reward. In order to get this reward, Herbert must remain quiet for one day.

Summary[]

Main Zoo[]

Lucy's animal friends are talking at once. Lucy asked the animals to keep quiet.

Story[]

It was a peaceful afternoon in Africa. Everything was peaceful until Herbert began playing with his rocks. The noise began disturbing Reginald taking his afternoon nap. Hearing Herbert playing his musical rocks, he gets irritated with Herbert making noises that disturb his peaceful nap. Herbert is irritated with himself about what Reginald said, muttering rudely. Nelson then becomes irriated with Herbert who hears him about the latter who talked to himself. This causes Herbert to become more irritated than ever.

To cheer himself up, Herbert started eating a pile of fruits and vegetables in a noisy mood. He also started burping, which annoyed Doris who is eating peacefully. The animals have a talk to see what is wrong with Herbert: they give out a challenge for Herbert to get a big reward for staying quiet for one day. To see the big watermelon, Herbert must remain quiet for one day to complete the challenge; if Herbert fails the challenge, which must take his rocks

The next day was the time the challenge has began. In this challenge, Herbert must remain quiet from sunrise to sunset. Herbert tried to eat breakfast, but realized the objective is to stay quiet from day to dusk. The animals keep a watch to see whether Herbert is doing noisy or quiet activities. Herbert then found Zed with Isabel, Annabelle, and Mirabelle. Herbert tried to play music, but realized that this action is very noisy, so he decides to keep up with the challenge. Herbert also met up with Doris challenging her to play a game without making a sound. Doris told Herbert to find a bird or an ant during this game. She began to win as Herbert cannot say a word. Herbert also stayed near a tree. However, the monkeys tried to make him laugh. Herbert didn't make any laughter.

Upon sunset, the animals rewarded him with a giant watermelon. Herbert is forced not to make noise for ten seconds. Behind him was a fly that came out of the watermelon, while the countdown has started. As the timer ends, the challenge is complete. The animals make him accept the reward for being quiet the whole day. Herbert starts to eat up the giant watermelon.

Moral Ending[]

The moral of this episode teaches about the importance of being courteous to others as well as the moderation of being noisy and quiet - more often teaching viewers how to become courteous of others preferring a quiet day. Lucy liked this story, but the animals began saying "Yes" without saying a word. As Lucy is ready for bed, Boris said "Good night". Boris didn't notice he and the other animals must be quiet. Lucy likes to have peaceful dreams after the story ended.