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Butterbean's Café - The Perfect Picnic! (S1E34)
Cricket’s plans for a perfect picnic with the Puddle Scouts are in ruins by ants secretly caused by Ms. Marmalady, and she must use her scout skills to save the day.
| Runtime (min) | 11 |
|---|---|
| Air Date | 2019-03-28 |
| Genres | Family, Kids |
| TV Rating | TV-Y |
| Network(s) | Nickelodeon, Nick Jr. |
Storyline
In this episode of Butterbean's Café, Cricket is excited to host the perfect picnic for her fellow Puddle Scouts. However, her plans quickly unravel when Ms. Marmalady secretly releases a horde of ants to ruin the festivities. Faced with chaos, Cricket must rally her friends and use her scout skills to tackle the unexpected challenge.
With determination and teamwork, Cricket and the Puddle Scouts devise a plan to save their picnic. They learn to work together, using creativity and problem-solving to outsmart the pesky ants. By the end of the episode, Cricket not only salvages the picnic but also strengthens her friendships and showcases the importance of resilience.
What parents say
Parents will appreciate the underlying themes of teamwork and perseverance in this episode. Cricket's ability to adapt to changing circumstances and her leadership skills serve as a positive example for young viewers. The episode also highlights the importance of remaining calm under pressure, teaching kids valuable life skills.
Another aspect that parents might find engaging is the creative problem-solving shown by Cricket and her friends. As they tackle the ant invasion together, children can learn that collaboration and communication are key to overcoming obstacles. Overall, this episode provides a fun and entertaining way to discuss important social skills with their kids.
What kids learn
Kids watching this episode of Butterbean's Café will learn the significance of teamwork and how working together can lead to effective problem-solving. Cricket's experience with the Puddle Scouts emphasizes that challenges can be overcome when friends combine their strengths and ideas. This episode encourages children to think critically about how to handle unexpected situations.
Additionally, children will see the importance of resilience and creativity. When the picnic goes awry due to the ants, Cricket does not give up; instead, she encourages her friends to brainstorm solutions. This can inspire young viewers to remain positive and resourceful in their own lives, reinforcing the idea that setbacks can lead to new opportunities.
Parents' top 5 questions
| Question | Answer |
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| What challenges does Cricket face during the picnic? | Cricket faces the unexpected challenge of a swarm of ants that Ms. Marmalady secretly unleashes to ruin the picnic. This chaos disrupts her plans, forcing her to think quickly and rally her friends to find a solution. The episode effectively demonstrates how obstacles can arise, but with teamwork and creativity, they can be overcome. |
| How do the Puddle Scouts work together to solve the problem? | The Puddle Scouts come together to brainstorm ideas and implement a plan to deal with the ant invasion. They each contribute their unique skills, showing how collaboration can lead to effective problem-solving. Their teamwork not only helps them salvage the picnic but also strengthens their friendships in the process. |
| What valuable lessons about teamwork are highlighted in this episode? | The episode emphasizes that teamwork is essential when facing challenges. Cricket and her friends learn that by combining their talents and communicating effectively, they can successfully tackle problems together. The story illustrates how working as a team can make difficult situations manageable and teach kids the importance of supporting one another. |
| How does Cricket demonstrate leadership in this episode? | Cricket showcases her leadership skills by staying calm under pressure and encouraging her friends to contribute ideas. When faced with the ant problem, she takes charge, motivating the Puddle Scouts to focus on finding solutions rather than panicking. This portrayal of leadership can inspire children to take initiative in their own lives. |
| What themes of resilience are present in the storyline? | Resilience is a key theme in this episode, as Cricket learns to adapt her plans when faced with setbacks. Instead of giving up on the picnic, she and her friends find creative ways to overcome the ant invasion. This message reinforces the idea that perseverance in the face of adversity is a valuable trait for children to develop. |
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| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
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| 1 | 1 | When Butterbean and her friends open Butterbean's Café, their jealous rival Ms. Marmalady tries to ruin everything. But she's no match for friendship, teamwork, and fairy yummy food. Will the grand opening be a big success? |
| 1 | 2 | Dazzle surprises her grandma by baking her banana bread. |
| 1 | 3 | Ms. Marmalady switches Jasper's order of fruits with lemons. |
| 1 | 4 | Poppy feels left out when Dazzle gives Butterbean a friendship necklace. |
| 1 | 5 | Cricket is given a box by Butterbean to keep her tooth safe, and said box soon goes missing. |
| 1 | 6 | Dazzle is in charge of the café while preparing a cake. |
| 1 | 7 | The ketchup used for Cricket's menu gets stolen. |
| 1 | 8 | Mr. Brookwrench turns Butterbean's delivery truck into a mobile café. |
| 1 | 9 | Butterbean must bring lunch to the president, after her limousine breaks down. Special Guest Star: Carla Hall as Madame President |
| 1 | 10 | Ms. Marmalady switches her wedding cake with Butterbean's own one. |
| 1 | 11 | Ms. Marmalady snaps up all the yogurt Butterbean needs for her Fairy Berry Parfait in an attempt to ruin their book party. |
| 1 | 12 | Butterbean gets a cold, therefore the crew try to run the café without her. |
| 1 | 13 | During a pizza party, the crew decides on what toppings they should use. |
| 1 | 14 | Butterbean and her friends try to explain to Ms. Marmalady what Thanksgiving is all about. |
| 1 | 15 | Cricket opens a lemonade stand, later realizing that being a boss isn't as easy as expected. |
| 1 | 16 | Unfrosted cupcakes are accidentally delivered by a Brookie. |
| 1 | 17 | The café's freezer has broken down, so Butterbean borrows Ms. Marmalady's, who uses it without help from anyone. |
| 1 | 18 | Dazzle and Poppy each think that the other's job is easier, so they decide to switch jobs to see whose job is easier and better. |
| 1 | 19 | Cricket is called on to save the day when the Sweet Ride cannot make any deliveries. |
| 1 | 20 | A mishap accidentally causes some monkey cookies to come alive, so it's up to Butterbean and friends to end the chaos. |
| 1 | 21 | The crew leaves a welcome basket for their new neighbors, not knowing that Ms. Marmalady will take their welcome. |
| 1 | 22 | It is time for the holidays in Puddlebrook, but after Butterbean loses the Sugar Plum Fairy cake, Cricket panics that the Sugar Plum Fairy will not come. |
| 1 | 23 | Butterbean babysits a rabbit toddler for the day. |
| 1 | 24 | As it is windy in Puddlebrook and the bean team are serving hot cocoa with marshmallows to not only warm their customers but also to attract them. |
| 1 | 25 | Cricket is so excited to have a new kitten, who she calls Cookie, that she doesn't only get carried away, but overwhelms it. This eventually results in it escaping at an opportune time. |
| 1 | 26 | Jasper offers for help in the kitchen with the day's special, cinnamon buns. When he tries to impress Poppy by adding a whole bowl of yeast to his cinnamon bun mixture in order to make it bigger and better, it enlarges out of control. |
| 1 | 27 | Cricket wants to surprise Poppy with a cake, but must finish it before Poppy returns from running errands. |
| 1 | 28 | Cricket loses a game at the cafe's Game Day. |
| 1 | 29 | Poppy is allergic to something that everyone thinks it's Cookie. |
| 1 | 30 | Butterbean and Ms. Marmalady both make quiche for the mayor, but only one will be crowned the Queen of Quiche. |
| 1 | 31 | Poppy's duties at the café leave her no time to practice for ballet tryouts. |
| 1 | 32 | When Cricket is nervous about her first camping trip, Butterbean helps her overcome her fear. |
| 1 | 33 | Fed up with the garbageman arriving at Butterbean's café, Ms. Marmalady competes with her at a Fluttercake-making contest. |
| 1 | 34 | Cricket’s plans for a perfect picnic with the Puddle Scouts are in ruins by ants secretly caused by Ms. Marmalady, and she must use her scout skills to save the day. |
| 1 | 35 | Butterbean makes a cake to look just like spring flowers. |
| 1 | 36 | Dazzle is a great singer, but her constant singing gets distracting. |
| 1 | 37 | Ms. Marmalady is having a bad day, so Spork and Spatch try to find a way to cheer her up. With the help of Butterbean, they make a cherry pineapple cake as a surprise for Mrs. Marmalady. But Mrs. Marmalady begins to feel lonely and decides to leave her café for good. |
| 1 | 38 | When Spork and Spatch steal Butterbean's Easter eggs, Cricket goes on a hunt to get them back. |
| 1 | 39 | Cricket makes special shirts for the cafe's barbecue, but the crew soils them. |
| 1 | 40 | Poppy's recipes may be in jeopardy when she accidentally donates her cookbook by mistake and Ms. Marmalady finds it. |
| 1 | 41 | Ms. Marmalady sends Spork and Spatch to swap her supply of peanut butter with Butterbean's own special supply of Flutter Butter, an ingredient used for Butterbean’s meal for two similar monkey kids. |
| 1 | 42 | Cricket helps Jasper make deliveries, but she keeps making mistakes. |
| 1 | 43 | A bad day gives Jasper a hard time trying to get rid of his bad luck, much to the point where he believes it will ruin his chance of winning the Green Machine, a green ATV, in a contest. |
| 1 | 44 | Jasper is tasked of delivering refreshments to a Frog Scout event at the park, and is excited to do it on the Green Machine, but he runs into mishaps along the way. |
| 1 | 45 | Cricket’s friend, Dottie, is moving away. They decide to spend a special last day together before Dottie moves away, but Cricket has an argument with Dottie while teaching her how to make chocolate strawberry ladybugs. Dottie sadly flees the café, and Cricket worries she has missed her chance to say goodbye. |
| 1 | 46 | When Dazzle shows her own delicate teapot set to Butterbean and the café, Cricket gets ahold of the tea set and has her own imaginary tea party with it. But Cricket worries she has broken it and tries to hide and fix it. |
| 1 | 47 | Cricket goes on a treasure hunt for a mysterious red fruit. |
| 1 | 48 | A rumor has everyone believing if gold treasure is buried at Butterbean's Café. |
| 1 | 49 | When all of Poppy’s vegetables disappear from her garden, the Bean Team thinks that Ms. Marmalady is responsible. |
| 1 | 50 | Cricket accidentally stains her dress before a wedding. |
| 1 | 51 | Dazzle accidentally locks smoothies inside the Sweet Ride and can't find the key. |
| 1 | 52 | Jasper thinks pet-sitting Cookie will be a piece of cake, but things go wrong when she gets lost. |
| 1 | 53 | When Spork and Spatch accidentally glue the fairies inside the cafe, the Bean Team can't get their pie orders out. |
| 1 | 54 | Poppy's fortune cookie says she will have a day full of mistakes. |
| 1 | 55 | Poppy agrees to work at Marmalady's forever if she cannot teach Spork and Spatch how to cook. |
| 1 | 56 | Dazzle becomes jealous when Grandma Nana spends time with Dazzle's friends. |
| 1 | 57 | Jasper wants to assist Butterbean in cooking for her idol, chef Belle Legume; Jasper also attempts to master the spatula in time to help flip and make the Towering Tower of Crepes. |
| 1 | 58 | Ms. Marmalady comes up with a plan to become the boss of Butterbean's Cafe. |
| 1 | 59 | Everyone in Puddlebrook has come down with the sniffles, even Jasper. Note: Beginning with this episode, episodes now air on the Nick Jr. channel. |
| 1 | 60 | Cricket's noisy antics constantly ruin the soufflé meant for the Brookbinders' wedding anniversary. |
| 1 | 61 | A shy new girl named Skylar is afraid to make friends, and Cricket has to help her. |
| 1 | 62 | When Butterbean runs out of magic fairy beans, the fairies go on an adventure to find more; Ms. Marmalady hears about their quest and wants to get the beans for herself. |
| 1 | 63 | A mischievous cat causes trouble in the café, but the team thinks it's Cookie. |
| 1 | 64 | Cricket is upset when her friends cannot come to her first slumber party. |
| 1 | 65 | The Bean Team tries to prep for their big party, but things keep happening around the café; Cricket believes she sees a ghost until she realizes it is actually a winged cat. |
| 1 | 66 | When Ms. Marmalady and her sister enter the Siblings Day Baking Contest, they argue over everything. |
| 1 | 67 | Cricket overhears Butterbean mention that she is closing the café. |
| 1 | 68 | When Ms. Marmalady lets the mischievous Oopsie Doodle loose in Butterbean's Café, he starts causing all sorts of mishaps. |
| 1 | 69 | Ms. Marmalady's mishap causes a giant gingerbread man to run wild and the Bean Team tries to catch him before he wrecks their café. |
| 1 | 70 | Dottie keeps mimicking Cricket on their playdate. |
| 1 | 71 | Chef Carlo is impressed by Poppy's huge homegrown tomato. |
| 1 | 72 | The Bean Team can't get an order right for one of their customers. |
| 1 | 73 | |
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| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | Cricket invites a popular cupcake designer named Stella Sprinkles to the café where they and some friends would decorate some cupcakes. Will the guest of honor arrive? |
| 2 | 2 | A fancy party is arranged, and Butterbean's crew receives invitations, except Jasper whose letter gets lost. |
| 2 | 3 | Dazzle thinks her new robot called EZ-PZ will make everyone's jobs easy peasy, but instead it creates kitchen chaos. |
| 2 | 4 | When Ms. Marmalady impersonated herself as Clara Cleanspot and closes Butterbean's Cafe, the team must stop her or they'll lose the Hops family for the Hopses' family dinner |
| 2 | 5 | |
| 2 | 6 | |
| 2 | 7 | Poppy's rambunctious girl cousin Rebel visits the café, and starts playing with Butterbean's whisk which becomes a problem when Butterbean needs it. |
| 2 | 8 | Ms. Marmalady gives Butterbean a mini flower-scope which is secretly a spy camera so she could replicate everything Butterbean produces, and therefore gain customers. |
| 2 | 9 | Cricket loves playing with her new friend Cutie Pie, an old pizza delivery truck that magically comes alive, until Ms. Marmalady buys Cutie Pie and threatens to send her vehicle to the junkyard. |
| 2 | 10 | |
| 2 | 11 | |
| 2 | 12 | Dazzle makes a popping doughnut to prank Poppy. |
| 2 | 13 | Dazzle thinks that everyone has forgotten her birthday, but her friends prove her wrong. |
| 2 | 14 | |
| 2 | 15 | |
| 2 | 16 | Farmer Carly's runaway rooster named Lou causes a cock-a-doodle disaster in the cafe. |
| 2 | 17 | Poppy promises Zara and her family that she'll make a cookie she's never heard of, however, she's never heard of "Sandy Dandies" before and she must figure out this unnamed cookie recipe. |
| 2 | 18 | |
| 2 | 19 | |
| 2 | 20 | When a bad Shadow Bean makes it nighttime forever and makes all the citizens of Puddlebrook fall fast asleep, they must return it to the Pit of Shadows in the Cave of the Magical Bad Beans and get rid of it once and it for all. But, they must be careful and avoid the Bean Bats who lived there because if the Shadow Bean falls right into a Bean Bat's hand, darkness will spread across Puddlebrook forever, all the time. Meanwhile, some darkness-loving Bean Bats and Queen Batilda take over Puddlebrook with the help of Ms. Marmalady, who took some Bad Beans so she can sabotage Butterbean's Cafe; the Bean Team must find a way to start the day before it remains darkness forever. |
| 2 | 21 | Ms. Marmalady uses a no-sharing bean on Butterbean's giant ice cream sundae. |
| 2 | 22 | Cricket is thrilled to be cafe photographer for the day, but there's more to the job than she thought. |
| 2 | 23 | Butterbean must deliver a very special dessert for a wedding. |
| 2 | 24 | Butterbean's friends want to surprise her with a beach day on the roof. |
| 2 | 25 | |
| 2 | 26 | |
| 2 | 27 | Ms. Marmalady "sleepy beans" the Bean Team before Cricket's Super Moon Party! Will the party go on? |
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| 2 | 38 | Cricket believes in the Glowberry Fairy in her fairy tale book, but the rest of the Bean Team isn't so sure that the fairy tale is real. |
| 2 | 39 | When Ms. Marmalady uses magical Marma-Hats to turn the Bean Team into the Marma Team so they can work with Spork and Spatch, Butterbean must save the day before the customers realized that the rest of the Bean Team were parted ways. |
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