Urmel

TVY • 1996 • Adventure • Animated • Music

An animated re-envisioning of Urmel's adventures on the island of Titiwu, based on the books by Max Kruse.

Episodes

Urmel from the Ice

While teaching tongue-twisters, Professor Ophelia Tibatong’s experiment goes awry: Toots accidentally spills "Super Duper glue," gets stuck—prompting Shoehorn to fly off for help.

Hardly a Still Life

Toots paints Urmel for an art competition at the Winkelberg Gallery.

Urmel Down Under

Inspired by Australia, Urmel burrows through the island seeking adventure “Down Under.”

Talking Plants

The characters encounter—or create—plants that can speak.

Tiddlypom out of her Mind

Professor Tiddlypom suffers a bizarre breakdown.

Snap Happy Urmel

Urmel discovers photography and enthusiastically takes lots of photos with Professor’s camera.

The Concert

A musical extravaganza featuring island talents.

Robot Rampage

Toots receives a homemade robot (vacuum and toaster) for her birthday, but it causes chaos.

The Secret of the Cave

Exploring a hidden grotto leads to surprising discoveries.

The Stolen Speech Drops

The vital “speech-drops” disappear, and the gang must retrieve them.

Pip the Hero

Pip, feeling overlooked, embarks on a daring climb of Mount Tafelberg, dragging along Urmel. His goal? Hero status.

The Anniversary

The islanders mark a special milestone.

Urmel Heads for the Sun

The Professor builds a solar-powered flying machine using kitchen supplies, but the plane falls apart mid-flight and crash-lands at the Winkelberg Zoo.

The Monster Egg

A giant egg is found—mystery and wonder ensue.

Sherlock Urmel

Strange disappearances plague Titiwu. Urmel and Ping, inspired by Sherlock Holmes, take up the detective mantle.

Witching Hour

While Urmel plays football with Wawa and Pip he suddenly changes into a ghost by falling into a big white shirt toots has hung up on the clothes line and running around this way.

Happening Sinks

Happening is struck by a several earthquakes which become stronger and stronger and endanger the whole island and its existence.

Urmel's Ark

Because of the strong wind and rain on Happening Urmel gets the idea of looking for an ark to rescue the other Animals and the Professor.

Urmel and the Beauty

Helga, the Professor's niece is arriving on the island. She is really beautiful and nearly everybody of the Animals except Urmel and Toots fall in love with her.

Something's Cooking

Toots is doing a French chef's correspondence course and preparing a test. Unfortunately her master piece, the Truffle Puffle, deflates every time it is served.

Urmel and the Monster Turnip

While the Animals prepare for the gardening show where the biggest and nicest plant will win a prize, the Professor is working in her lab on a potion which can make everything bigger.

The Treasure of the Blue Pirate

By chance Urmel finds a gold ducat with an imprint of a one-eyed pirate on it.

The Kidnapping

Swindleman and Slimeyer who have hidden on Happening already for 3 weeks kidnap Toots and bring her to the Winkelberg.

On the High Seas

Inspired by an old Jolly Roger the flag of the Blue Pirate whose dilapidated wreck is on the other side of the Island, Urmel, Shoehorn, Wawa and Pip plan a pirate adventure as well.

Urmel Follows his Instinct

After they have learned something about instincts the Animals think that they have to follow these natural voices inside.

Psychotricks

This time Swindleman and Slimeyer come to Happening disguised as travelling salesman with the plan to catch all the islanders by taking advantage of their flaws to get Urmel in the end.