The Undersea Adventures of Ripples and His Friends

While looking through some old books, Ripples Polly and Jason come across a picture of a mermaid. After Icarus explains the phenomenon of mermaids according to the old legends, the three friends' search begins. Will they find what they are looking for, or will she find them first?

While Jason's artistic attempts of Ripples are not as satisfying as hoped, he tries once more using Icarus as his subject.. Meanwhile at the bottom of the sea Polly and Ripples hear about a ghost swimming nearby. They soon learn however that what was thought to be a ghost is instead no other than a friendly Manta Ray named Amanda.

Ripples, Polly and Jason are cherry picking and have a basket full to take back to Icarus. On their way back however a greedy Jason cannot resist the temptation of the delicious fruit and eats them all.

Jason believes and convinces both Ripples and Polly that the clouds are made of scrumptious candy floss. The three friends decide, with fishing net in hand, to try and catch some of the candy floss to eat. Unfortunately it proves to be harder than they thought.

Icarus has realized he has gained a few pounds around his tummy and makes a bet with Jason that he'll lose the extra pounds by the end of the week. In an attempt not to lose the bet, Jason decides to prepare Icarus some delicious meals and leaves them anonymously on the fishing boat every morning pretending they are from a secret admirer.

The three friends are becoming a little bored on the beach when a crab suggests they play "Find the Flag" And so they form two teams, Ripples, Polly and Jason, against Lillo, Dido and Dado. Icarus lends them the fishing boat's glorious flag with a picture of a dolphin on it, Lucinda hides it in a secret location and the search begins.

Ripples, Polly and Jason meet a new friend named Aziz. They soon learn that Aziz isn't allowed to play with them at all as his mother is a little too apprehensive after Aziz' father was swept away by the great current. On hearing this sad news, Ripples, Polly and Jason decide to face the dangerous waters around Blue Island and look for Aziz 'father.

It's snowing and Ripples, Polly and Jason have never seen snow before. They make a wonderful snowman and decide to take it into the sea to show all their friends. Once immersed in the salty waters however, the snowman immediately melts. Icarus decides to decorate a Christmas tree near the beach and the three friends make a new snowman.

After Ripples has a bad dream about the ugly Rospilla toad witch, he closes himself in an empty giant oyster shell. Icarus tries to help him and give him confidence by giving him a "lucky charm". Ripples is convinced that his new pendant has magic powers and will protect him wherever he is and with whoever he is.

Jason is making a sand castle for the little crabs to play in, which unfortunately crumbles under the weight of a butterfly. A thick fog shortly comes in from the sea along with a strange sound that frightens the inhabitants of the sea.From the fog appears Michelangelo blowing in an amazing horn, announcing his arrival.

Ripples, Polly and Jason are playing on the rapids of a river when their playing is interrupted by the passing of a shoal of eels. Icarus explains to his little friends that the eels are swimming up the river looking for a quiet spot where they can breed.

Ripples is in the forest preparing a drink made from a strange mixture of herbs. While Polly and Jason refuse to drink it, Ripples drinks it all in one fell swoop and in doing so, loses his voice. Doctor Otto advises a good deal of laughter to cure the problem but can they make Ripples laugh enough to regain his voice?

Ripples and his friends are playing sponge ball when Lillo arrives with a new friend Bumbo, a pup shark. Bumbo starts playing with everyone and Ripples soon learns that he is somewhat presumptuous. Intent on teaching Bumbo a lesson, Ripples challenges him to a race but to his own disappointment, he actually loses.

Ripples, Polly and Jason are listening to one of Icarus' many adventures but soon realize that it may be somewhat exaggerated. After enjoying the story they then swim to the sea bed to look for their friends. Here they find Toto who is busy telling one of his amazing stories.

Ripples, Polly and Jason are chatting about their wonderful friendship when Ripples, unlike his two friends, believes he would be just as happy alone. Disappointed by his words, Polly and Jason swim away into the sea leaving Ripples alone on the beach.

Icarus is telling a pirate story in the old fishing boat and Ripples, Polly, Jason and Jack are rather scared. Suddenly through the porthole, they see a mysterious vessel appear through thick fog with three strange animals aboard, a parrot, a monkey and a chameleon

Jason doesn't even know he has an Uncle, especially one such as Uncle Hercules. His new uncle has arrived from far away and although very affectionate, Jason finds him also rather intrusive. But when his uncle realizes that Jason isn't actually his nephew, he decides to continue his search.

Ripples, Polly and Jason are playing sponge ball on the old fishing boat. After the ball bounces off Jason's head, it ends up in the water and the three friends dive in after it. The ball however has fallen into a sunken galleon and is extremely scary.

Ripples, Polly and Jason think Icarus has gone looking for help to organise a spring clean of the old fishing boat. In an attempt to surprise Icarus, the three friends start cleaning, but unknown to Jason his brush is dirty with oli. Ripples and Polly stop him in time and suggest he goes to take a shower. But Jason, as scatterbrain as he is, gets the wrong room and ends up locked in the freezer.

There is a strange dark substance, with the resemblance of oil, leaking from a boat in difficulty at sea. The expanding spill is threatening a nest of young seagulls and their mother on a nearby rock. As Jason attempts to help he remains stuck and disappears in the middle of the substance. Frightened, Ripples looks for Polly and Icarus for help.

Icarus is telling our little friends about Odysseus and how he faced the dangers of his long journey. Jason would like to live Odysseus' adventures and even designs a boat. Jason falls asleep and Ripples and Polly decide to take advantage of Jason's' sleepy state and play a joke on him.

Our friends decide to throw a party on the fishing boat and go to the forest to pick some strawberries. On arrival they soon learn that all the strawberries have already been picked by a little rabbit. On seeing Ripples, Polly and Jason, the rabbit runs away and the chase begins

Miguel and Sofia are two Mexican ballerina shrimps who make friends with Ripples, Polly and Jason. The new arrivals decide to teach them how to dance but Jason proves to be somewhat "left footed" Taken aback by Sofia's beauty, Jason decides to give her a real pearl as a present

Some strange birds arrive on the beach, puffins. Ripples and his friends suspect that the new arrivals have a secret therefore Polly transforms herself into a puffin and joins their group in an attempt to discover their mystery. When Polly however is late, her friends fear she is in trouble.