Zootopia+

Zootopia+ returns to the busy mammal city from the 2016 film. The show tells six short stories instead of one long plot, and each story follows a different side character. Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde appear around the edges while parents, wedding guests, police workers, a small thief, and restaurant customers take the lead. The stories involve a child on a train, a family wedding, a criminal seeking a better life, a police dance contest, and a server racing to a concert. The tone stays bright, silly, and fast, while the fourth story gives a warmer and more serious history of the city.

The clearest social message appears in the fourth short, where Mr. Big arrives as a poor newcomer from the old country. Larger residents call his family vermin and tell them to know their place, while the story says that Zootopia was not made for everyone. Mr. Big responds by building a family business, creating jobs, and helping make Little Rodentia a home for small mammals. The final short briefly shows Bucky and Pronk as a married male couple, but their relationship is not the point. These ideas appear in isolated moments, while most of the season focuses on family, work, friendship, romance, and comedy.