Two men at the barbecue try to outdance each other with the funkiest stunts, but one move turns the whole party into catastrophe.

A scientist who specializes in neurolinguistic computing built an ASL translation system to more easily video-call with her deaf sister, who is an avian conservationist. When one of her birds accidentally gets online with the scientist's children, the scientist discovers that her translation software can give a voice to animals too.

A circus wire-walker suffers an injury that relegates him to an unimportant side-show, but he finds solace in the company of a Rhesus monkey who has lost her child.

A linguist is called to investigate robots that seem to have created their own language.

Sly, a monkey with human capacities, is growing increasingly upset with his containment. All he wants is to be treated with respect.

When eccentric scientist Papa Schimmelhorn plays his seemingly harmless bassoon, a wave of material-eating Gnurrs are summoned by the millions. He uses them to end the war against Bobovia.