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Hopp on Board is the first episode of Zootopia+.
Transcript[]
For a full transcript of Hopp on Board, click here.
Characters[]
- Judy Hopps - a rabbit
- Bonnie Hopps - a rabbit
- Stu Hopps - a rabbit
- Molly Hopps - a rabbit
- Pop-Pop - a rabbit
- Timmy Hopps - a rabbit
- Hopps family - rabbits
- Gideon Grey - a fox
- Yax - a yak
- Mystic Springs Oasis members - various animals
- Finnick - a fennec fox
- Nick Wilde - a fox
Synopsis[]
When Judy boards the train from Bunnyburrow to Zootopia to begin her life as the big city’s first bunny cop, Stu and Bonnie’s youngest daughter, Molly, hitches a ride atop the train, forcing the down-to-earth duo out of their comfort zone and into an action-packed rescue mission.
Plot[]
A majority of the Hopps family has come down to the train station to see Judy off. She has one final goodbye with her parents and Stu becomes comically emotional. As the train leaves the station, they realize that their youngest, Molly, has somehow climbed on top of the train. As the two panic and start to pursue, Bonnie yells for Pop-Pop to get the rest of the kids home.
When they reach their truck, Stu accidentally drops their keys in a drain, forcing Bonnie to hotwire their vehicle and take off after the train. By this time, Molly has made it inside the train but Judy, who is listening to her music, is unaware of what is happening.
Bonnie and Stu now have a madcap race to try and catch the train. Their frantic driving causes them to encounter various familiar faces along the way. They nearly hit Gideon Grey who is driving his "Real Good Baked Stuff" van. They vault over Yax who is leading a Mystic Spring Oasis retreat in the woods and even spring over the Tundratown field where Nick and Finnick are in the process of making pawspsicles.
At one point they get close enough to the train for Stu to climb on top as it enters Sahara Square and then Tundratown exposing Stu to the uncomfortable hot and cold weather conditions. He is knocked off in the Rainforest District but is caught by Bonnie as they see the train stopping at Zootopia Central Station.
Molly gets off the train and tries to follow Judy through the crowded terminal but is accidentally knocked off the platform. Stu catches her before she falls onto the tracks and Bonnie then pulls them both to safety before they are hit by an incoming train.
Bonnie and Stu praise each other on the excitement each brought to their adventure and share a kiss. However, they quickly discover that Molly has again climbed on top of a train which is heading back to Bunnyburrow.
Emboldened by their previous success, the two enthusiastically prepare to have another wild chase and start a heroic sprint after the train. But then, Stu throws his back out and Bonnie helps him shamble back to the truck.
Overlap with Zootopia[]
The episode is essentially a retelling of Judy's train ride from Bunnyburrow into Zootopia from the perspective of Bonnie and Stu who are pursuing the train to get Molly. As such there are many scenes that reused or recreated from the original film.
The episode opens at the Bunnyburrow train station where Judy's family has come to see her off. The episode recreates the scene of Bonnie and Stu saying how proud they are of Judy and continues until Bonnie says they are excited but terrified for her. At this point there's a big divergence from the film in that the Zootopia Express pulls up to the station right then, whereas in the film, Judy, Bonnie, and Stu have a much longer conversation that includes Stu's "gifts" and the train doesn't pull up until Judy agrees to take the fox repellent.
In the film, when the train pulls away, Cotton, Judy's niece, says "Bye Judy, I love you. Bye. Bye!" and briefly runs along the train. In the episode, this is entirely omitted in place of Bonnie and Stu realizing that the train has pulled away and Molly is on top of the train, which prompts the ensuing chase.
From here, there are various scenes of the train making its way to Zootopia and going through the various habitats that appear to be taken from the film, but it's hard to say if these scenes were directly reused or recreated for the episode.
Observations[]
This is episode is primarily intended to be a fun, frantic chase episode involving Bonnie and Stu and the hilarity that ensues as they race to retrieve Molly.
However, to achieve the breakneck pacing of the truck always being seconds behind the train, the episode ignores or alters aspects of the geography of the city of Zootopia that was shown in the film in breath-taking splendor during the "Try Everything" travel montage.
The most egregious of these revisions occurs when the train leaves the forested area to approach the city limits. In the movie, the train actually has to cross a vast expanse of water on an elevated railway before it reaches Sahara Square and passes a large "Zootopia Welcomes You" sign when doing so. In the episode, the train simply goes through a tunnel in the forest and emerges in Sahara Square on the other side.
In the film, as the train passes through Tundratown, the camera is elevated and looks down into the town square where many pedestrians can be seen walking in the snow and riding chunks of ice that glide down a river. In the episode, the camera is down at road level. A few pedestrians can be seen walking in snow (including the two elephant children dressed as Anna and Elsa) but there's no sign of anyone floating in the river.
Once the train crosses into the Rainforest District, the pretense of a continued chase is abandoned since, in the film, the train winds its way through the rainforest and canal districts whose drawbridges, two-lane roads, and waterways would make a high-speed chase impossible. Instead, the chase jumps to the train's final approach into Zootopia Central Station and the episode even creates a highway leading to the station that does not exist in the film.
Trivia[]
- The episode's title is a play on the phrases "hop on board" and "baby on board".
- In the UK version (Zootropolis+), a continuity error exists with the scene in which Bonnie and Stu are bidding Judy goodbye. In the UK version of the film, their dialogue had been redubbed to mention Zootropolis instead of Zootopia. However, in the Zootropolis+ version of Hopp on Board, the characters' lines are unchanged from the original film, and as such they still refer to Zootopia.
- In the film, when Judy passes by the Bunnyburrow population sign it reads 81435817. When Bonnie and Stu rush by, it has risen to 81436703.
- Some names of the members of the Hopps family have been revealed: Abby, Ally, Aggie, Amy, Andy, Anne, Arnold, Ashley, and Archibald along with Timmy and Molly.
- When Stu is knocked off the train in the rainforest district and floats down with an umbrella he says "Oh, look you can see the burrows from here." This line is a nod to two things. The first is a common story trope where a character finds themselves at a great height and comments that they can see their house from their new elevation. The second is reference to early Zootopia city designs where the "Burrows" were, in fact, just outside the city limits like an extended suburb. However, in the film, Judy states that Bunnyburrow is 211 miles away and in the episode, Stu is in the Rainforest District which faces the opposite direction of Bunnyburrow so it's highly unlikely that he can actually see the Burrows as he falls.
- Before Judy heads off, in this episode, Stu says "Oh Look at her, Bon, living her dream and Bonnie says "Oh, She's Coming Back!' However, in the main film, they don't say anything at all.
Gallery[]
Hopp on Board/Gallery.
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