Cowboy and Octopus maintain their friendship despite different opinions about things like beans and knock-knock jokes.

A transmission received from outer space in a combination of different Earth languages tells of an alien schoolboy's fantastic excuse for being late to school again.

Contemporary fables with tongue-in-cheek morals address such topics as homework, curfews, and television commercials.

When the teacher tells his class that they can hear the poetry of science in everything, a student is struck with a curse and begins hearing nothing but science verses that sound very much like some well-known poems.

So far the AstroNuts have failed to find a suitable planet, but NNASA has come up with a new plan: send the the four animal astronauts back through time on Earth where they are to contact early homo sapiens and somehow set them on a path to a sustainable future--trouble is, humans seem inferior to many of the other species (especially the wolves), so the AstroNuts come up with a Survival of the Fittest Olympics, hoping that with a little help the...