The early years of the Madagascar heroes Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, as they grow up in a rescue habitat at the Central Park Zoo.

Before Saul Goodman, before Jimmy McGill, there was: Slippin' Jim. He's a sly young slickster trying to make it through Catholic school without landing himself and his best pal Marc in detention - again!