Pushed by his mother to stop lazing around the house, a Panda searches for a part-time job but has troubling finding one to accommodate his laziness. He soon stumbles upon the Polar Bear Café, run by a Polar Bear who is holding interviews for a part-time position with his faithful customer Penguin.

Penguin point Panda towards a part-time job at a petting zoo, where he works with a full-time panda entertaining school children.

Panda, Penguin and Llama come up with ideas for if they ran their own café.

Everyone goes to a flower viewing party where Penguin gets very drunk and goes on about a penguin he likes.

Polar Bear and Penguin come to the zoo Panda works at, where they have trouble catching Panda when he's awake and visiting the other attractions.

Panda and the other animals discuss the problems they face doing their jobs.

After seeing everyone with smartphones, Panda convinces his mother to buy him one, only for him to soon break the panda cover it had. Polar Bear cheers Panda up by making him an origami panda cover, only for him to end breaking the actual phone.

Wanting to learn some driving techniques, Penguin joins Polar Bear and Panda on a drive.

As Panda has to fill in for the full-time panda for a week, he is forced to ride packed trains for work. He cheers up and becomes more energetic when he starts receiving flowers from a supposed fan named Rin-Rin, only to later learn it was the male flower shop owner, Rintaro Hayashi.

Polar Bear decides to do a parfait fair and tries to come up with some special parfaits to serve.

Following an incident at work, Panda feels he is overweight and decides to go on a diet.

Panda decides he needs to get in touch with his wild side, so Polar Bear takes him to meet his childhood friend, Grizzly, who runs a bar.

Feeling he could do with being more popular, Panda decides to give Handa a makeover, although it ends up turning into a day out with Handa paying for everything.

Having received his driving license, Penguin is tested by Polar Bear to try and achieve his 'dating license.'

Polar Bear is interviewed about his café by a magazine headed up by the editor who is a Shoebill.

Panda joins Polar Bear and Grizzly to catch some ingredients.

Rintaro gets excited when he gets to make a delivery to Panda's house and meet his family.

The others try to support Penguin as he tries to work up the courage to confess to Penko.

Thanks to Panda's interference, Handa is set up by his fellow employee, Kirino, to go on a mixer to meet some girls.

When one of the guys cancels, Panda and Polar Bear fill in for the guy's side. However, the girls become more interested in Panda than they are in Handa.

Penguin gets heartbroken when he assumes Penko is dating Tortoise.

Panda joins Polar Bear and Grizzly on a night out, visiting a batting center and a public bath.

Panda and the Full-time Panda attempt to distract themselves during a boring and rainy day at the zoo, much to Handa's chagrin.

Handa once again questions his love life once but finds some peace during his first visit to the Polar Bear's Café.

As the café prepares for a Tanabata party, everyone has trouble deciding what they should wish for.