The Wild Thornberrys Pilot.This episode takes place near Mt. Killmanjaro. The Thornberry family are amid breakfast as Eliza talks with a small animal. The animal informs her that something is headed their way causing Eliza to gasp. Marianne is scooping up oatmeal into dishes for the members of the family. Nigel reffers to it as porriage. Donnie spatters his oatmeal all over the table. Marianne tries to get Donnie to say oatmeal and Debbie sarcastically states that Donnie doesn't speak English. Nigel asks Debbie where Eliza had gotten off to and Eliza runs up to inform her parents that a stampede is coming, stating it at the same time Nigel realizes one is coming. Marianne send the girls, Donnie and Darwin to the 'camper' while Nigel and herself film the stampede. Eliza pulls the cord labeled 'stampede' and the 'camper' locks down. Eliza opens the door to watch the stampede as it goes by. Nigel goes into an explaination as the zebra rush around him. Inside the 'camper' Debbie flips through a magazine while Eliza and Darwin 'talk.' Eliza comments that if she told her parents she talked to animals, then she could help the show (which 'Gift of Gab' later contridicts). Then the 'Foundation of Natural Science' radios in on the short wave for Marianne, Debbie then tells Eliza that someone is calling in, and gives a sighs when Donnie shoved a bug in her face. Eliza answers the shortwave, informing the man on the other end that her parents are in the middle of a zebra stampede.