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Season guide

Octonauts: Season 2

23 episodes Premiered Nov 19, 2012
Previously on Octonauts

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Octonauts Season 1.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (20): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

The Colossal Squid

Nov 19, 2012

The Octopod is attacked by a colossal squid, who drags the ship down an abyssal trench, forcing Barnacles and Kwazii to make a perilous swim outside to confront the gigantic beast.

S2·E2 Core

The Adelie Penguins

Nov 20, 2012

While Kwazii and Peso have their hands full babysitting a bunch of Adelie penguin chicks, Captain Barnacles must rescue the chicks' parents from a perilous sea storm!

S2·E3 Core

The Coconut Crabs

Nov 21, 2012

Kwazii finds a mysterious, unbreakable coconut, so the Octonauts seek out the help of some large, island-dwelling coconut crabs to open it.

S2·E4 Core

The Great White Shark

Nov 22, 2012

Peso must perform an emergency fin bandage on a hungry great white shark, but first they need to subdue the giant predator using a trick called 'tonic immobility'.

S2·E5 Core

The Sea Snakes

Nov 23, 2012

It's Sea Snakes on an Octopod when a poisonous sea krait lays her eggs in the garden pod, just as Captain Barnacles has to navigate the ship past a treacherous whirlpool.

S2·E6 Core

The Bowhead Whales

Nov 26, 2012

When the Octonauts are unable to rescue a group of Narwhals trapped behind arctic ice, they recruit a Bowhead Whale to help them break through!

S2·E7 Core

The Jawfish

Nov 27, 2012

A mouth-brooding jawfish father has lost his eggs, and the Octonauts must brave strong currents and other obstacles to help get them back to him!

S2·E8 Core

The Porcupine Puffer

Nov 28, 2012

Barnacles, Kwazii and Peso venture back inside a whale shark to retrieve a Porcupine Puffer Fish that was accidentally swallowed.

S2·E9 Core

The Damselfish

Nov 29, 2012

The Octonauts help a group of algae-eating fish stand up to some aggressive damselfish, who are harming their own reef by over-farming it with algae.

S2·E10 Core

The Scared Sperm Whale

Nov 30, 2012

A timid sperm whale must help the Octonauts release Peso from a giant clam.

S2·E11 Core

The Long Armed Squid

Mar 11, 2013

Peso and Kwazii venture down to the midnight zone to help a hurt creature, but what they find is a shipwreck 'haunted' by a spooky-looking long-armed squid.

S2·E12 Core

The Fiddler Crabs

Mar 12, 2013

The Octonauts help clean up a beach after a storm, but things get complicated when the resident fiddler crabs hijack the Gup-D!

S2·E13 Core

The Manta Rays

Mar 13, 2013

The Octonauts help a young manta ray find the secret manta ray feeding grounds, but when they finally locate it, the Octonauts become caught in the middle of a dangerous feeding fr

S2·E14 Core

The Swashbuckling Swordfish

Mar 14, 2013

The octonauts discover a rare showing of a full moon as Kwazii discovers that its known as the Pirate Moon as Kwazii and The Octonauts search for a ship that belonged to the pirate

S2·E15 Core

The Triggerfish

Mar 15, 2013

The Octonauts' floating temperature sensors alert them to a risk of waterspouts due to a rise in sea surface temperature so they decide to retrieve the devices for safe-keeping. Bu

S2·E16 Core

The Mimic Octopus

May 13, 2013

The Octonauts recruit a shape-shifting mimic octopus to help them recover an important vial of medicinal algae from a moray eel's lair.

S2·E17 Core

The Lionfish

May 14, 2013

The Octonauts get more than they bargained for when they use the Octopod to transport a pair of invasive lionfish back to their native habitat.

S2·E18 Core

The Leafy Sea Dragons

May 15, 2012

When two young leafy sea dragons are accidentally separated from their father and brought onboard the Octopod, the Octonauts must find them before they end up in Kwazii's stew!

S2·E19 Core

The Manatees

May 16, 2013

Running out of air, Barnacles struggles to free his paw from the mouth of a giant clam, while simultaneously directing his crew in a delicate manatee rescue operation.

S2·E20 Core

The Saltwater Crocodile

May 17, 2013

When a gigantic saltwater crocodile wanders into freezing waters, the Octonauts must figure out how to get the predator back to his warm water home - without anyone getting hurt.

S2·E21 Core

The Humphead Parrotfish

Sep 2, 2013

The Octonauts use magnets to try to stop a meteor that's heading toward the Octopod and get an assist from a rock-chomping humphead parrotfish and her friends.

S2·E22 Mytharc

The Gulper Eels

Sep 3, 2013

When hungry gulper eels as well as undersea tremors threaten Inkling and Kwazii, Dashi uses the new, multi-purpose Octo Max Suit to rescue them.