Poppets Town
Animated series about a dog, a cat, and a bear solving problems.
Poppets Town (French title: Les Popilous) is a Japanese-influenced animated comedy children's television series produced by Decode Entertainment (then DHX Media, now WildBrain) and Neptuno Films in association with OLC Rights Entertainment. The series is based on characters and merchandise created by Japanese author and illustrator Jun Ichihara in 2004. It originally aired on Knowledge Kids and TVOKids in Canada, premiering on January 1, 2009, and concluding on May 1, 2011, with 26 episodes (52 segments).
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Comedy; Animated series
- Creator
- Jun Ichihara
- Based on
- ポペッツタウン, Jun Ichihara
- Developer
- Katherine Sandford
- Director
- Josep Viciana
- Theme music
- Steve D'Angelo and Terry Tompkins for Eggplant Music & Sound
- Opening theme
- "We Get Around in Poppets Town"
- End theme
- "We Get Around in Poppets Town" (Instrumental)
Facts from the source article.
Characters
Blooter is a blue tall anthropomorphic dog with dark blue polka-dots, long ears, a short tail, a red nose, and black bead eyes. He typically wears no clothes except a yellow helmet with a white stripe when riding his scooter, a red collar, and a yellow backpack. Blooter is smart, friendly, and fun, and he loves to ride his scooter that runs on "Blooter power." He is the leader of the Poppets and the only one who comes up with ideas to solve problems. He is best friends with Patty and Bobby. Blooter enjoys rapping and singing on a microphone, and his spy codename is "Poppet-Scoot." His catchphrases include "Poppets Away!," "Scoot-toot!," "Popporific!," and "My brain just popped a great idea!" Patty is a bright yellow short anthropomorphic cat girl with two ears, a long tail, two black whiskers, large round black eyes with prominent eyelashes, and a little red nose. She wears a bright pink dress with light-colored flowers and a blue bandana around her neck. Patty is sweet, loving, kind, smart, and friendly. She rides a bright pink helicopter called the "Patter-Patter" and carries a green laptop she calls her "Patty-puter" for information. She is the only Poppet who knows everything and is best friends with Blooter and Bobby. Her favorite instrument is the drums, and her spy codename is "Cookie-Finder." She plans parties at the end of every episode. Bobby is an orange anthropomorphic bear with round ears, a black nose, and bead eyes. He wears a yellow shirt with pink polka-dots (his "lucky shirt") and a blue beret. He is friendly and helpful, and he rides a bright yellow mobile van called the "clubhouse" that runs on solar power. He hangs a camera around his neck for taking pictures. Bobby is the only Poppet who helps with equipment and is best friends with Blooter and Patty. His favorite instrument is the guitar, and his spy codename is "Nail-Hammer." Alli is voiced by Martin Roach in English and Masanori Machida in Japanese.
Broadcast
In addition to its Canadian broadcast on Knowledge Kids and TVOKids, the show aired internationally. Disney Channel Latin America and Disney-ABC International Television Distribution distributed it for Playhouse Disney (later Disney Junior) in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Latin America, Brazil, Spain, Scandinavia, Italy, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand, but not on the American Disney Junior channel. In Japan, it aired on Disney Channel's Playhouse Disney block from October 5, 2009 to January 13, 2010, with reruns on Disney Junior from July 3, 2011, and later on TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting from January 31, 2012. It broadcast on Israel's Hop! Channel in 2010, on Discovery Familia in the United States from 2011 to 2014, on ABC Kids in Australia, and on ZooMoo in Brazil from September 11, 2013, and in Latin America from August 21, 2014. OLC distributed the show in Japan. The series is available on Amazon and the Google Play Store.
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