March 3, 2006 (2006-03-03)[2] – October 17, 2016 (2016-10-17)[3]
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Wonder Pets! is an American animatedmusicalchildren's television series produced by Little Airplane Productions. The series follows a trio of classroom pets—Linny the Guinea Pig, Turtle Tuck, and Ming-Ming Duckling—who use teamwork to help animals in need. Most of the characters' dialogue is sung in the style of a sung-throughmusical.[4] Each episode is set to original music by a 10-member live orchestra.
Josh Selig and Jennifer Oxley developed the idea for Wonder Pets! while working on their previous show, Oobi. The series started out with two animated shorts called "Linny the Guinea Pig", which acted as pilot episodes. To animate them, Oxley created a style of animation called "photo-puppetry" that uses photos of real objects and moves them using Adobe After Effects.[5] The shorts featured Linny going on adventures set to classical music.[6] In 2003, Little Airplane screened the shorts at the wrap party for Oobi's second season. The shorts caught the attention of Nickelodeon, who picked up the shorts to air in between shows on the Nick Jr. block.
The two original shorts were aired throughout 2003 and 2004.[7] For the full-length series, the characters of Tuck and Ming-Ming were added to form a team of hero pets. Tuck was created using photos of Jennifer Oxley's own pet turtle (a red-eared slider).[5] The first long-form episode debuted on March 3, 2006,[2] as part of the Nick Jr. block on Nickelodeon. On that same day, the series started airing on Noggin as well. It ran for three seasons and 62 episodes. The final episode aired on October 17, 2016. The first two seasons and majority of season 3 aired on Nickelodeon, while the last 9 episodes only aired on the separate Nick Jr. Channel.
A reboot series, Wonder Pets: In The City was released on Apple TV+ on December 13, 2024. The series centers on a new team of Wonder Pets, and take places in New York City. Selig and Little Airplane are not involved in the revival due to the latter being shut down by parent company Studio 100 in 2023, and was produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio.[8]
Premise
The series centers on three pets living in a school. Each episode (two separate eleven-minute segments or a single twenty-two-minute episode) follows a similar structure, with many hallmarks and repeated elements. As each episode begins, children and a teacher are heard from off-screen, leaving school. They say goodbye to the classroom pets. The classroom is always decorated with student artwork and other items related to a given episode's particular storyline, featured animal, or geographic location. Once the classroom is empty, a pencil holder rattles to create the ringing of a phone.
One by one, the classroom pets notice the ringing phone. As the phone rings, they put on their accessories (a hat for Linny, shoes and a sailor's cap for Tuck, and an aviator hat for Ming-Ming) and make their way towards the phone while singing their opening verses. The Wonder Pets answer the phone and find that an animal is in trouble somewhere. Linny, the Guinea Pig, explains the situation to the other two: Tuck Turtle and Ming-Ming Duckling. They all jump into a box filled with fabric scraps and jump back out wearing different outfits, often alluding to the area of the world they will be visiting. They make a quick joke and jump back into the box, emerging again wearing superhero capes.
Once dressed, they assemble a flying vehicle called the Flyboat. In some episodes, the Wonder Pets opt for a different mode of transportation by adjusting the Flyboat. Usually, the pets encounter an obstacle before leaving the classroom. The solution is invariably similar to the action they will need to take to save the animal in trouble.
When saving the animal, the Wonder Pets always fail on the first few attempts. The danger escalates, prompting Ming-Ming to sing, "This is sewious!" Suddenly, the Wonder Pets remember how they solved the problem in the classroom and realize that the rescue has a similar solution. They have to work together to achieve the rescue. Once the animal is saved, its parent or other relative appears to give grateful thanks to the Wonder Pets. The pets celebrate with a celery snack. The rescued animal's parent sometimes adds a bit of regional food or insists on a regional preparation. The pets fly back to the school and return to their cages as their hats and capes come off. The Flyboat automatically disassembles upon landing. Ming-Ming is always the first one to get back in her cage, Tuck is the second, and Linny is the last. A musical riff relating to the episode's rescue is played as Linny takes a bite out of the celery in her cage and winks at the camera. Other pets have winked at the camera including Tuck in Save the Rhino, Ming-Ming in Back to Kalamazoo and "In The Land of Oz!" and Ollie in "Ollie to the Rescue!" and "The Amazing Ollie!". Another episode or the end credits then begin.
Linny (voiced by Sofie Zamchick in the US and Meisha Kelly in the UK) is a brown guinea pig[10] who is the leader of the Wonder Pets and the oldest of the three. Linny is the most educated of the group, often providing information about the different animals and environments that the pets encounter. Linny is usually the one to remind the group about teamwork and offer praise. She has the responsibility of starting and driving the Flyboat. Linny's catchphrase is "This calls for some celery!", said at the end of each adventure. She always carries some celery with her and brings it out to celebrate after every successful mission.
Tuck (voiced by Teala Dunn in the US and Catherine Holden in the UK) is a red-eared sliderturtle and the middle of the three.[10] He is sensitive with an emotional connection to living things and is the center of the group. Tuck is empathetic, often wanting to give the rescued animals a hug or keeping them company while Linny and Ming-Ming put their rescue plan into action. He has keen observational skills and can spot things from long distances, which Linny compliments him, "Good eye, Tuck!" He has an older cousin named Buck, whose cool demeanor and many skills make Tuck jealous.
Ming-Ming (voiced by Danica Lee in the US and Kaya Alexander in the UK)[11] is a duckling and the youngest of the three.[10] Unlike the other Wonder Pets, she can fly and speak "bird", allowing her to connect with other birds that the Wonder Pets encounter. Ming-Ming often provides comic relief in the show and is the Wonder Pet mostly likely to use irony and mild sarcasm. Her family comes from a petting zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and she visits them on occasion. She has a baby cousin named Marvin and her aunt's name is Elenora. She speaks with a prominent rhotacism, pronouncing "r" sounds as "w". She is known for saying "This is sewious!" whenever there is trouble.
Recurring
Ollie (voiced by T.J. Stanton in seasons 1–2 and Cooper Corrao in season 3) is a gray rabbit who considers himself the fourth Wonder Pet. He is self-centered and often unintentionally annoys the Wonder Pets when he visits their classroom. He has his own superhero team, the "Thunder Pets", consisting of himself and his toys. He is a terrible rescuer and invariably needs help from the Wonder Pets whenever he tries to save someone and he lives in a burrow outside of the Wonder Pets' schoolhouse with his mother, sister, and baby brother.[12]
Ginny (voiced by Anne Meara) is Linny's grandmother. She lives in a nursing home with an old white mouse named Bernie (voiced by Jerry Stiller). Like Linny, she is self-confident, a natural leader, and loves celery.
The Visitor is an extraterrestrial being who lives on a faraway planet. He resembles a purple frog-like creature with two antennas and one foot. He knows a few English phrases but can only speak in short fragments. He crash-lands on Earth in "Save the Visitor" and needs the Wonder Pets' help to fly back to space. He becomes a good friend of theirs and invites them to his party in "Save the Visitor's Birthday Party".
Little Bee and Slug are a pair of bug friends. Little Bee is a young bumblebee who is just learning how to make honey for her hive. Slug is a green garden slug who wears the top of an acorn as a hat. She and Slug appear as the main characters of "The Adventures of Bee & Slug!" and "Bee & Slug Underground!"
Baby Dragon and Uni are two magical creatures who live in a storybook in the Wonder Pets' classroom. Baby Dragon is a wingless dragon, and Uni is his best friend, a unicorn. They first appear in "Save the Unicorn", in which the Wonder Pets try to help Uni when her horn is stuck in a tree. After freeing Uni, the Wonder Pets try to flee from Baby Dragon, but they discover that he is Uni's best friend. The Wonder Pets return to the storybook land to save Baby Dragon after he gets stuck on a cloud.
Baby Chimp is a chimp who flies a spaceship. His spaceship broke down twice, and was almost hit by a meteor.
Baby Monster is a monster. She stomps her toy city down, and loves monsteroni pizza.
Production and history
Wonder Pets! was produced by Little Airplane Productions. Before Wonder Pets! started, Little Airplane had only produced live-action works, like Oobi and a short film titled The Time-Out Chair.[13] After Oobi became a breakout success for the studio, its co-founder Josh Selig expressed interest in producing another television show.[14] Little Airplane produced two animated shorts called "Linny the Guinea Pig." The shorts focused on a silent guinea pig who left her classroom to go on fantastic adventures, each set to classical music. Jennifer Oxley, who had joined Little Airplane as an animator, signed on as the director of the two shorts.[15]
Josh Selig and Jennifer Oxley first screened the shorts at the wrap party for Oobi's second season. The shorts eventually caught the attention of Nickelodeon, who picked up the shorts to air in-between shows and eventually commissioned a full season of 20 long-form episodes. Tuck and Ming-Ming were added to the cast to form a team of superhero pets, and the characters were given voices; the dialogue-free nature of the original shorts did not translate well to half-hour episodes. At first, the show was called The Super Singing Power Pets!, but it was renamed Wonder Pets! because the former name was too long.[13] Many former crew members of Oobi moved onto the show, including writers Chris Nee and Sascha Paladino and composers Larry Hochman and Jeffrey Lesser.[16]
The animation style used to create Wonder Pets! is called "photo-puppetry," and was created for the series to allow animators to manipulate photographs of real animals. It also uses drawn objects (not characters), so the total presentation could be considered animated mixed-media. Jennifer Oxley considers this technique her own invention and first used it to create lifelike transitions for Little Airplane's previous works.[14]
A good deal of the dialog is sung, so the show has been likened to operetta or singspiel. A 10-member live orchestra performs each episode, sometimes including other instrumentalists skilled in music from the region to which the pets are traveling during the episode.[17] Completing each episode took thirty-three weeks from script to final delivery.[18]
Broadcast and release
Wonder Pets! premiered on Nickelodeon airing on March 3, 2006,[2] as well as Noggin on the same day.
"Save the Wonder Pets!", "Save the Sea Lions!", "Save the Kangaroo!", "Save the Caterpillar!", "Save the Crane!", "Save the Hedgehog!" and "Save the Crocodile!" [19]
Save the Unicorn!
September 11, 2007
"Save the Unicorn!", "Save the Penguin!", "Save the Three Little Pigs!", "Save the Owl!", "Save the Swan!", "Save the Puppy!", "Save the Bullfrog!" and "Save the Poodle!" [20]
Save the Reindeer!
October 2, 2007
"Save the Reindeer!", "Save the Camel!", "Save the Ants!", "Save the Goldfish!", "Save the Baby Birds!", "Save the Egg!" and "Save the Flamingo!" [21]
Save the Dinosaur!
February 12, 2008
"Save the Dinosaur!", "Save the Pigeon!", "Save the Dragon!", "Save the Beaver!", "Save the Bee!", "Save the Squirrel!", "Save the Dolphin!" and "Save the Chimp!" [22]
Save the Beetles!
April 22, 2008
"Save the Beetles!", "Three Wonder Pets and a Baby!", "Save the Chameleon!", "Save the Platypus!", "Save the Duckling!", "Save the Kitten!", "Save the Sheep!" and "Save the Hermit Crab!"[23]
Save the Nursery Rhyme!
June 3, 2008
"Help the Cow Jump Over the Moon!", "Save the Itsy Bitsy Spider!", "Save Little Red Riding Hood!", "Save the Turtle!", "Save the Griffin!", "Save the Rooster!", "Save the Panda!" and "Save the Mouse!" [24]
Save the Bengal Tiger!
September 9, 2008
"Save the Bengal Tiger!", "Save the Gecko!", "Save the What?", "Save the Ladybug!", "Save the Sea Turtle!", "Save the Goslings!" and "Ollie to the Rescue!" [25]
Save the Nutcracker!
October 7, 2008
"Save the Nutcracker!" "Save the Pangaroo!", "Save the Cricket!", "Save the Old White Mouse!", "The Adventures of Bee and Slug!","Save the Cow!", and "Save the Skunk!" [26]
Join the Circus!
February 24, 2009
"Join the Circus!", "Save the Rat Pack!", "Fiddler Crab on the Roof!", "Save the Armadillo!", "Save the Visitor!", "Save the Tree!" and "Save the Elephant!" [27]
Ollie's Slumber Party!
June 9, 2009
"Here's Ollie!", "Save the Hound Dog", "The Amazing Ollie!", "Help the Monster!", "Save the Cool Cat and the Hip Hippo!", "Tuck and Buck!", "Save the Dancing Duck!", and "Save the Dalmatian!"[28]
The First Rescue
April 5, 2010
"How It All Began!", "Happy Mother's Day!", "Save the Sun Bear!", "Save the Mermaid!", "Save the Visitor's Birthday Party!", "A Job Well Done!", and "Save the Rhino!"[29]
Season 1
October 26, 2015
"Save the Dolphin!", "Save the Chimp!", "Save the Unicorn!", "Save the Penguin!", "Save the Sea Lions!", "Save the Kangaroo!", "Save the Caterpillar!", "Save the Crane!", "Save the Duckling!", "Save the Kitten!", "Save the Pigeon!", "Save the Dinosaur!", "Save the Cow!", "Save the Skunk!", "Save the Swan!", "Save the Puppy!", "Save the Tree!", "Save the Elephant!", "Save the Panda!", and "Save the Mouse!"[30]
Reception
Pam Gelman of Common Sense Media gave the show four stars out of five, describing as "kid-friendly mini-operas about teamwork and more."[31]
In other media
Books (Wonder Pets! series)
Arranged in publication date order.
Josh Selig (January 8, 2008). Teamwork Saves the Day!: Book and Beanie Baby Gift Set. Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon. ISBN978-1-4169-4797-4.
Little Airplane Productions; Jennifer Oxley (July 29, 2008). Flyboat Adventures. Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon. ISBN978-1-4169-4742-4.
Kermit Frazier; Little Airplane Productions (January 6, 2009). Save the Tree!: Little Green Nickelodeon. Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon. ISBN978-1-4169-5111-7.
You Can Fly, Bumblebee!. Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon. January 27, 2009. ISBN978-1-4169-7107-8.
In addition to the DVDs and books, the show's self-titled track, Wonder Pets!, was released on April 10, 2007.[33] The soundtrack features songs from the show itself, including the main self-titled theme song.
Track listing
All songs are performed by the Wonder Pets unless otherwise noted.
The Wonder Pets! Save the Animals! is a video game released on October 27, 2008 in North America exclusively for the Nintendo DS.
Toys and merchandising
In March 2008, Fisher-Price began distributing a line of official Wonder Pets! toys in the United States.[34] Toys include the Flyboat, figurine playsets, and plush animals. These figurine playsets have each Wonder Pet saving a different baby animal. These include Linny saving a baby penguin, Tuck saving a baby bluebird, and Ming-Ming rescuing a kitten. In addition, there is a whale playset for the tub.
References
^Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. pp. 343–344. ISBN9781476672939.
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