Wonder Pets!

Wonder Pets!
Wonder Pets!
Created by	Josh Selig
Starring	Sofie Zamchick; Teala Dunn; Danica Lee
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	42
Production
Producer(s)	Tone Thyne
Editor(s)	Romeo Alaeff; Susie Herang
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Little Airplane Productions; Nickelodeon Animation Studio
Release
Original network	Nick Jr. on Nickelodeon (2007-2011); Nick Jr. (2006-2016)
Original release	March 4, 2006 –; July 20, 2013
Chronology
Related shows	Team Umizoomi

Wonder Pets! is a television series for children. It aired on Nick Jr. and Nickelodeon. The show is based on a series of short films, called Linny the Guinea Pig. The series won an Emmy Award in 2008 for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition.

Josh Selig developed the idea for Wonder Pets! while working on his previous show, Oobi. The series began with two animated shorts called "Linny the Guinea Pig", which acted as a pilot episode. They featured Linny going on adventures set to classical music.[1] Selig first screened the shorts at the wrap party for Oobi's first season. The crew of Oobi was impressed with them and urged Selig to pitch them to a TV channel. He eventually decided to send the shorts to Nickelodeon executives. Selig called Nickelodeon "a great partner," saying "They're really the company that first believed in us when we pitched Oobi, and then they believed in us again on Wonder Pets!."[2]

Overview

Each episode follows a similar structure, with many hallmarks and repeated elements. As each episode begins, children are heard from off-screen, leaving school at the end of the day. 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 aviator goggles 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 in superhero capes.

Cast

Sofie Zamchick (US) and Meisha Kelly (UK) as Linny the Guinea Pig
Teala Dunn (US) and Catherine Holden (UK) as Tuck the Turtle
Danica Lee (US) and Kaya Alexander (UK) as Ming-Ming the Duckling
Cooper Corrao (US) and T.J. Stanton (UK) as Ollie the Bunny

References

"Little Airplane Soars with 'The Wonder Pets!'". Animation World Network.
"Kids' Corner Q&A: Wonder Pets!'s Josh Selig". Entertainment Weekly. April 22, 2007. Archived from the original on April 6, 2015.

Other websites

Wonder Pets on nickjr.com Archived 2011-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
Wonder Pets! on IMDb

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[1] "Little Airplane Soars with 'The Wonder Pets!'". Animation World Network.

[Entertainment_Weekly-2] "Kids' Corner Q&A: Wonder Pets!'s Josh Selig". Entertainment Weekly. April 22, 2007. Archived from the original on April 6, 2015.