Two actor performances in the style of a scene out of a movie.
Judge Harold Killicker is a panda that dislikes 'whiners' - which he defines as anyone that claims entitlement or otherwise gives excuses for even inconsequential crimes. As bigoted and prejudicial as he is, he's also wealthy and influential and has found ways to stay on the bench for a long time. During an intense court case against a donkey defendant, the judge ignores exculpatory evidence, claiming the donkey is playing the 'species card' for sympathy. The innocent defendant loses the trial, and the judge goes home proud. But the next day, when he wakes up in the urban slums with everyone around him - donkeys all - calling him by a different name, he's shocked to see his reflection as a donkey himself! Will he be able to embrace open-mindedness, or is his unchanging mind doomed to live and die in this life of poverty and injustice?
One of the last cases of an average day of His Honor Harold Killicker, the panda has lost his patience after suffering through 'whiners' all day, and now has to hear the case of a kangaroo, brought to the court to answer for hopping in a no-hopping zone. A minor infraction, but the judge finds a way to make it a major one, and make an example of the latest 'whiner'.
It's supposed to be one of the easiest jobs imaginable for an introvert like Mohammed Wing. It takes years to fly a ship all the way out to Uranus and back, the only place in the solar system that goes as long without any sunlight for so long. It should be just ten years on a state-of-the-art ship playing videogames, eating good food, and letting the computers do the work. Unless a surprise happens, like an alien lifeform arrives.
Partially contractual obligations but mostly on rabbit android Warren's insistence, Mo is pressed into donning his spacesuit and exploring the recently discovered floating remains of an apparently alien starship. Even though scans indicate the ship is abandoned, the beaver is reluctant to be the first Earthling to set foot on an alien vessel. But even if he'd rather hide behind the planet's shadow and forget this discovery, he finds himself fulfilling his contract and exploring the ship.