![]() Donnie, the random, unintelligible, hyperactive Wild Child.When people hear Eliza talking to animals it sounds like animal noises and gibberish. Animal Talk: Animals can all converse with each other but not with humans, except for Eliza.A dolphin that can transform into a beautiful human woman and leaves the sea seeking companionship with a human? Yep. All Myths Are True: Subverted with El Gordita (who is not a vampire), but if the region that the family is in has lore, it's true.Another episode had Eliza trying to free an elephant calf from a nature preserve, both of them believing the place was a prison.until she succeeded, saw just what poachers can do to wild elephants, and found that the calf's mother was deeply relieved to discover her behind that gate.The finches nearly devour the insect population and soon the entire food chain starts falling apart. ![]() She decides to make his life easier by giving him (and later on, additional finches) sewing needles. Case in point: when the Thornberrys are on the Galapagos islands, Eliza stumbles across a finch attempting to spear some hidden insect larvae with a thorn. The show occasionally argued that misguided attempts to "help" animals who are apparently suffering often makes things worse.When Darwin tries to give him fruit instead he politely declines. Affably Evil: The Komodo Dragon is pretty polite to Eliza and Darwin, other than that he makes it no secret that he plans to kill and eat them.He turns out to be not only an impostor of Marianne's friend, but also a crazy guy who thought he was a vampire because he watched American horror films and was unable to distinguish reality from fiction. Actually Not a Vampire: The episode "Blood Sisters" had the family encounter an old friend of Marianne who makes no effort in hiding that he is a vampire.This show has examples of some of the only non-villainous roles in Tim Curry's career - Nigel Thornberry and his father. The series has three films to its name, the Made-for-TV Movie The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie (2001), and two theatrical films: The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002), and the Crossover movie Rugrats Go Wild! (2003). Also along for the ride was the deeply neurotic chimpanzee Darwin, and crazy wild jungle boy Donnie, Eliza's adopted younger brother. The cast is filled out by the aforementioned parents Nigel and Marianne Thornberry, the Nature Documentary's presenter and camerawoman respectively and Eliza's older sister, the deadpan and deeply-unenthusiastic- about-her-parents'-career Debbie. Naturally, there's a catch-she can't tell anyone she has this power, or else she loses it, and presumably, the shaman who gave it to her to begin with would be hard-pressed to give it back again. The show centers around Eliza Thornberry, an adventurous young girl who can talk to animals, an especially handy power when your parents travel the world to make Nature Documentaries. The Wild Thornberrys was a Nicktoon that ran from 1998 to 2004, produced by Klasky-Csupo of Rugrats fame, (deep breath) created by Arlene Klasky, Gabor Csupo, Steve Pepoon, David Silverman note not to be confused with the animator of the same name who is best known for his work on The Simpsons and Stephen Sustarsic, and developed by Mark Palmer, Jeff Astrof and Mike Sikowitz.
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