Animal Kingdom Meets Madagascar

The hosts and guests of Stinky and Jake's Animal Show are teleported to the world of the lemurs, and there they show the lemurs, and the rest of the fauna of Madagascar what creatures that live outside of their world are like and what they can do. Several friendships are formed, too. No special point to this.

Story
"Let's have a nice round of applause for all the animals we've had starring on The Animal Show so far!" said Jake the Polar Bear enthusiastically.

The audience clapped and cheered as so many of the animal friends that had appeared on the show stood up to be praised. There were too many of them there to name them all, but examples included Trudy the Chimpanzee, Lazlo the Hyena, Chuck the Lion, Jackie the Orangutan, Sly the Crocodile, Nemets the Ant, Lenny the Gorilla, and numerous others. And of course, there were Jake's own co-stars on the show, like Armstrong the Chicken Hawk, Yves St. La Roache, Bunnie Bear, Rhonda Rat, and of course, his beloved bungling friend, Stinky the Skunk.

"This is the 22nd anniversary of the premiere of The Animal Show with Stinky and Jake, and I'd just like to say, man, has it been a good run the whole way!" said Jake.

"And now we plan to move on to some more really cool animals," said Stinky with enthusiasm, "like the Sparrow Hawk, the Bush Baby, the Cobra..."

"Stinky!" Jake hissed, "We never promised that the show would go on indefinitely. We're all good friends here, but we have to find new ways to tell people about the animals of the world, or maybe tell some people that don't have so much familiarity with animals."

"What? We have to move on?" protested Stinky. "But I was just beginning to have some real fun on this show, Jake."

"Yeah," said Rhonda Rat, "I was beginning to find it amusing to drop annoying animals through the trapdoor, too."

"I don't like it either, guys," said Jake, "But even the best shows have to end sometime, and their stars have to move on. Like I said, something tells me there's still so much that we can do."

"Uh, Jake, Stinky," said Bunnie Bear, "It looks like there's something wrong with our old television monitor."

"Yes," said Armstrong, "It looks like it's turning into a hypnosis machine. See the spinning circles and all? Oh, how I hate it when things go wrong here!"

Jake and Stinky turned around. The monitor they used to show real live footage of animals in action was showing spinning circles in it, all right, like some joker had turned it into a hypnosis device.

"Hey, Jake," said Stinky, "Is it me, or does it feel like we're being pulled in that direction by that screen?"

"Nonsense," said Jake, chuckling, "Even if it is hypnotic, it's ridiculous that it could be some kind of vacuum pulling us in."

But just then, the hypno screen seemed to come to life. It was like the air was being sucked into it, and many of the animal hosts and guests of The Animal Show felt like they were being sucked into it.

He didn't need to say that. Upon sensing the pull of the strange screen, the audience was putting a lot of distance between themselves and the show. Most of the cameramen managed to escape, too. But Jake and Stinky were the first to be lost in the screen's picture, and then, so were so many of the other animals of the show, hosts, and guests alike, right down to Achilles the Shark and Dullard the Aardvark, Rhonda Rat's personal cameraman.

Where were they headed?

Quite possibly to the most extraordinary habitat that was barely familiar with the other animals of the wide Earth.

In Madagascar, the native lemurs were just finishing up one of their countless all-night dance parties that kept them loving and enjoying life. This one was a prelude to the next water sliding party in the kingdom's main get-together jungle, and two lemurs in particular, King Julien XIII and Mort, were ready to show each other what they were made of.

"Betcha I can beat you this time," Mort boasted.

"Betcha you don't Mort," said King Julien proudly.

"Go, King Julien," shouted Maurice, Ted, Dorothy, and several other lemurs.

"Go, Mort," shouted Willie, as well as several others, including Clover, who had come to watch, too.

"Let's see," said Maurice. "King Julien's my best friend, and I don't wanna change that. But Mort has always been there for us. Man, I can't decide who to root for."

"Oh, don't worry about it, Maurice," said Clover, "You like both of them, so why don't you cheer for both of them? You don't have to play favorites if you don't want to."

"Oh, okay," said Maurice, "Why didn't I think of that? Go, King Julien! Go, Mort!"

"Did you hear that, King Julien," said Mort, "It sounds like Maurice can't make up his mind when it comes to picking between the two of us in water sliding."

"Aw, don't worry about Momo," said King Julien. "That's just part of who he is, remember? Let him cheer for both of us if he wants to."

Mort shrugged. "If you say so, King Julien, but it still seems a little bit funny to me."

King Julien, Mort and other lemurs made ready to make their slide to the watering hole lemurs had chiseled long ago for their pool parties. Pancho made the signal to go, and the slide was on.

In the meantime, in places near the watering hole, the rats such as King Joey, Lazy Doug, Efficient Charlie, and Clumsy Pete, were building their mazes, while Karl and Chauncey are devising their evilest plan to destroy King Julien.

Elsewhere, the Fossa were busy minding their own business while Mary Ann and the head fossa sat on a rock and talked about matters of fossa royalty.