| The search for Donnie continues while Donnie finds orangutan parents for the time being. In the meantime Marriane has broken her wrist and Nigel has a hurt knee but they carry on looking for the orangutan, and Debbie and Sophie find themselves in a tribe. Donald "Donnie" Michael Thornberry Voiced by Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and occasionally Justin "Bucket" Hanks - on more than one occasion the little known Dylan James voiced the character, Donnie is a sociopathic psycho feral boy who (as revealed in the 2001 4-part TV movie, "The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie") was raised by orangutans (similar to Tarzan) after his real parents, a pair of naturalists, were killed by poachers. Before the Thornberrys adopted him, the special also reveals that Nigel and Marianne knew his parents. He commonly wears a pair of leopard-spotted shorts (also similar to Tarzan's leopardskin loincloth) and he loves to eat bees. He talks very wildly and unintelligibly in animal-sounds (but nothing Eliza can understand), but is able to adapt to most environments. Donnie is 4, but turns 5 in "The Origin of Donnie". |
