Logo: Direzione Generale, Cinema e AudioVisivo.

[Cheerful music plays]

The Game Catcher friends: cardboard box Boxy, one-eyed alien Kate, red dinosaur Dino, green pigeon Pigi, and unicorn Nina skip around a star.

They sing, WE LOVE GAMES,
PLAYING IS OUR MISSION.
TO FIND GAMES,
WE'RE ON AN EXPEDITION.

Studio Bozzetto and Sardine Productions present, a series created by Andrea Bozzetto, Brank Rakic, Corrado Colleoni in collaboration with Rai Ragazzi.

The Game Catchers sing, WE'RE TRAVELLING AROUND
THE UNIVERSE
IN SEARCH OF FRIENDS
AND FUN.

In space, they fly around a planet in their ships.

The Game Catchers sing, COLLECTING GAMES TO SHARE
WITH EVERYONE.
WE'RE THE GAME CATCHERS,
CATCHERS,
THAT'S RIGHT.
WE'RE THE GAME CATCHERS,
CATCHERS.
YEAH!

They return to headquarters and meet multi-armed blue haired Mr. Moustache.

They cheer, GOOD MORNING!

Startled, Mr. Moustache jumps out of his seat.

He says, OH! GOOD MORNING!

[Mr. Moustache chuckling]

Title, The Game Catchers.

A Game Catcher reads the episode title.

They say, RUNAWAY MOUNTAIN!

Written by Heidi Foss.

[Gentle music plays]

Boxy says, CALLING AGENTS RED ROAR
AND RAINBOW SUPER PUPPY.
DO YOU HEAR ME?

In the telescope room at Game Catchers headquarters, he talks into a two-way radio with Pigi at his side.

Through the radio, Boxy asks, WHAT IS THE SITUATION
OUT THERE?

Outside, Nina appears from behind a tree.

She says, HMM...

Dino appears from behind the tree.

He says, HMM...

Through his own radio, Dino says, RED ROAR IS SPEAKING.
I'M STILL HUNGRY!

Through the radio, Boxy says, OH, I MEAN ABOUT
AGENT GUMMY GIRL.

Dino says, OH! GUMMY GIRL IS ABOUT
TO COMPLETE THE MISSION.

In the slide room, Kate looks around.

She says, HMM...

She sneaks to the game machine room doorway with a camera.

[Mr. Moustache humming]

Kate says, OOH!

With the camera, she stretches her arms, reaching toward Mr. Moustache, who works on the game machine computer.

Mr. Moustache says, NOT HERE. OH! MAYBE HERE.

Kate taps him on the shoulder.

Mr. Moustache says, HMM. HUH?

He turns around and Kate takes a photo.

[Camera flashing]

[Mr. Moustache gasping]

Kate quickly pulls the camera away as Mr. Moustache rubs his eyes.

Mr. Moustache says, WH-WHAT?

He looks around the now empty room. Elsewhere in the building, Kate pins the photo of Mr. Moustache to a board.

She says, MISSION FUNNY PHOTOS,
ACCOMPLISHED!

Other photos of Mr. Moustache are pinned to the board.

Boxy says, GOOD WORK, GUMMY GIRL!

Mr. Moustache calls out, GAME CATCHERS!

The Game Catchers say, HUH?

Mr. Moustache spots the photos on the board.

He says, UH, WHAT FUNNY PICTURES!

[Game Catchers giggling]

Mr. Moustache says, COME WITH ME! I FOUND A PLANET
WITH GAME TRACES!

In the game machine room, the game machine computer shows a planet with trees full of fall leaves and creatures walking alongside a forest.

[Giggling]

Nina says, THOSE ARE CHILDREN PLAYING!

Mr. Moustache says, THAT'S RIGHT!
READY, GAME CATCHERS?

The Game Catchers cheer, YEAH!
THERE'S A NEW GAME TO CATCH!
GO!

They fly out of headquarters in their ships.

[Upbeat music plays]

The Game Catchers sing, LET'S TAKE OFF
EXPLORING,
THROUGH SPACE OUR SHIP
IS SOARING,
AS WE SEARCH FOR GAMES
AND NEW FRIENDS.

[Tires screeching]

[Music stops]

The Game Catchers stop at a red light.

[Engine rumbling]

A blue walrus creature flies by on an iceberg ship, then the light turns green.

[Upbeat music continues]

The Game Catchers sing, WE DO LOVE EXPLORING,
WE NEVER FIND IT BORING,
TOURING GALAXIES
WITHOUT ENDS!

They fly through space.

They sing, OUR UNIVERSE IS
FULL OF GAMES AND FUN!

[Pigi cooing]

The Game Catchers sing, FOR EVERYONE!

[Pigi cooing]

The Game Catchers cheer, WE'RE THE GAME CATCHERS!

They fly to the fall trees planet and land their ships on a small hill.

They say, WOW!

Nina hops down the hill.

She says, SO CUTE!

She meets three vegetable root creatures, a beet, a parsnip, and a radish.

The Beet creature says, HELLO, WHO ARE YOU?

Nina says, HELLO, WE'RE
THE GAME CATCHERS!

Boxy says, AND WE GO FROM PLANET
TO PLANET...

Kate and Pigi say, …TO LEARN...

[Pigi cooing]

[Crashing]

[Yelping]

Dino slides across the ground in front of the other Game Catchers.

He says, …NEW GAMES!

[Vegetable creatures laughing]

The Beet creature says, OH! HOW NICE!
OUR FAVORITE GAME IS
"STICK THE TAIL".

Kate asks, CAN WE PLAY?

The Parsnip creature says, WE'D LOVE TO,
BUT WE JUST LOST THE TAIL.
IT BLEW TO THE TOP
OF THE MOUNTAIN.

Boxy says, MOUNTAIN?

He and the other Game Catchers look around.

They all say, HUH?

Boxy asks, WHERE IS THE MOUNTAIN?

The Radish creature says, WE DON'T KNOW.
SOMETIMES, OUR MOUNTAIN LIKES
TO WANDER OFF.

Nina says, LET'S LOOK FOR IT!
MOUNTAINS ARE BIG,
SO IT SHOULD BE EASY TO FIND.

Everyone cheers, LET'S GO!

The Game Catchers and their new friends walk alongside the forest.

[Whistling]

Everyone says, OH!

Nina asks, WHO IS WHISTLING?

The Radish friend says, THOSE ARE THE WHISTLERS,
WHO LIVE ON THE MOUNTAIN.
LET'S FOLLOW THEIR SOUND!
WE MIGHT FIND THE MOUNTAIN!

[Whistling]

Boxy says, OVER THERE!

[Giggling]

Elsewhere on the planet, a tall mountain uses hiking poles.

[Rocks rumbling]

[Mountain inhaling deeply]

[Mountain sighing]

[Whistling]

A tiny root vegetable creature, a Whistler, rests in the snow on top of the Mountain.

The Game Catchers and their friends cheer, IT'S THE MOUNTAIN!

They run after the Mountain.

They say, OH, NO!

The Radish friend says, IT'S GOING TOO FAST!

Boxy says, I KNOW!

He pulls out a bow and plunger arrow, then launches the plunger onto the Mountain.

Boxy says, COME ON, EVERYONE!
GRAB THE ROPE!

He tosses the rope to the others.

The others say, GOT IT!

Boxy and the others pull themselves up the rope onto the bottom of the Mountain.

[Panting]

[Grunting]

[Laughing]

Everyone cheers, HURRAY!

Beside Boxy, Dino asks, HOW ARE WE GOING TO FIND
THE TAIL ON THIS HUGE MOUNTAIN?

Boxy says, HMM... AH!

He takes out a monoscope and looks up the Mountain.

He says, HEY!
I FOUND IT!

Through the monoscope, Boxy watches the Whistler grab a rope tail.

He says, OH, YOU FOUND IT.

The Whistler tosses the tail down to Kate.

Kate says, THANK YOU!

The Whistler waves, then drops down into the snow on the Mountain.

The friends all cheer, YEAH!

Kate says, WE STILL HAVE TO GET OFF.
BUT HOW DO WE STOP
THE MOUNTAIN?

The Beet friend says, I DON'T KNOW.
WE'VE ONLY EVER SEEN IT
NOT MOVE WHEN IT'S ASLEEP.

Nina says, I KNOW HOW
TO GET IT TO SLEEP!

She softly sings, GO TO SLEEP,
GO TO SLEEP.

Everyone sings, GO TO SLEEP BIG MOUNTAIN.
LA-LA-LA, LA-LA-LA.
LA-LA-LA, LA, LA, LA!

The Mountain stops moving.

[Mountain snoring]

Everyone quietly says, HE FELL ASLEEP!

Dino says, LET'S GET OFF!

He and Boxy follow the others off the Mountain.

Boxy says, HURRY!

[Cheering]

[Giggling]

Later, the Beat friend says, IT'S TIME TO PLAY
"STICK THE TAIL"!

The Game Catchers cheer, YEAH!

[Upbeat music plays]

The Beat friend says, TO PLAY, EVERYONE HAS
TO STICK THE TAIL
ON THE BUFFYFLUFF.
BUT THEY HAVE TO DO IT
WITHOUT WATCHING.

The Game Catchers say, NICE!

The Radish friend draws on the flat side of a brown boulder.

The Beet friend explains, FIRST OF ALL,
TO PLAY STICK THE TAIL,
YOU NEED TO DRAW A BUFFYFLUFF,
WITHOUT THE TAIL.

The Radish friend’s Buffyfluff drawing looks like a bull.

Nina says, OH, IT'S SO CUTE!

The Radish friend continues, AFTERWARDS, THE PLAYER
WHO IS "IT" IS BLINDFOLDED
AND HE MUST TRY TO ATTACH
THE TAIL IN THE RIGHT PLACE!

The Parsnip friend and Radish friend put a blindfold on Pigi, then spin him.

[Pigi cooing]

[Laughing]

The Beet friend says, THE FIRST ONE WHO SUCCEEDS,
WINS!

Wobbling back and forth, Pigi approaches the Buffyfluff with the tail.

[Pigi cooing]

Pigi sticks the tail between the Buffyfluff’s horns and takes off the blindfold. He frowns.

[Pigi cooing with annoyance]

Laughing, Boxy says, NOT QUITE!

[Laughing]

Kate says, MY TURN!

The Parsnip friend and Radish friend spin Kate, who is blindfolded.

[Giggling]

[Excited gasping]

Kate sticks the tail on the Buffyfluff’s nose and takes off the blindfold.

She says, OOPS!

She frowns.

[Others laughing]

Boxy says, NOW, IT'S MY TURN!

Blindfolded, Boxy sways back and forth as he approaches the Buffyfluff with the tail. He sticks the tail on the Buffyfluff.

He says, YEAH!

He takes off the blindfold and looks at the tail stuck on the right spot.

[Boxy gasping]

Boxy cheers, YEAH! I WON!

[Laughing]

Everyone cheers, HURRAY! LET'S PLAY AGAIN!

The Parsnip friend and Radish friend spin Dino, who is blindfolded.

Dino says, WHOO!
OH, OH, OH...

He falls.

[Dino giggling]

Dino says, I FEEL DIZZY!

[Others laughing]

Blindfolded, Nina says, OVER HERE? HMM...

She turns around.

She says, MAYBE OVER THERE!

Nina sticks the tail on a brown surface and takes off the blindfold.

She says, AH!

She frowns.

She says, OH?

The tail is stuck on Boxy, who also frowns, then smiles at Nina.

Laughing, Nina says, OOPSIE!

[Everyone laughing]

[Cheerful music plays]

The Game Catchers return to headquarters on their planet. In the game machine room, the Game Catchers watch Mr. Moustache work on the game machine computer.

Nina says, AH, WE PLAYED
"STICK THE TAIL!"

Kate says, YOU HAD TO ATTACH THE TAIL
TO THE DRAWING OF A BUFFYFLUFF!

[Kate giggling]

Kate adds, BUT IT ISN'T EASY WHEN
YOU'RE BLINDFOLDED!

[Mr. Moustache chuckling]

Mr. Moustache says, WHAT A FUNNY GAME!

He glances at the computer.

He says, OH, INCOMING GAME-SPHERE!

[Triumphant music plays]

The claw game-like machine fills a sphere with an orange light and memories of the Stick the Tail game. The machine pops the sphere out onto a stand like a gumball.

The Game Catchers say, OH!

In the archive room, Boxy puts the game sphere on a shelf among others.

[Mr. Moustache chuckling]

Mr. Moustache says, ANOTHER AMAZING GAME
FOR OUR COLLECTION!
GOOD JOB, GAME CATCHERS!

The Game Catchers cheer, HURRAY!

[Cheerful music plays]

End credits.

Logos: Direzione Generale, Cinema e AudioVisivo.
Studio Bozzetto & Co.
Sardine Productions.