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Wonder Pets!

Wonder Pets!
Genre
Created byJosh Selig
Written by
Directed byJennifer Oxley
Voices of
Theme music composerLarry Hochman
Opening theme"The Wonder Pets!"
Ending theme"The Wonder Pets!" (instrumental)
Composers
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes
  • Shorts: 2
  • Full-length episodes: 62
[1] (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producerJosh Selig
ProducerTone Thyne
EditorsRomeo Alaeff
Susie Herang
Running time22 minutes
Production companiesLittle Airplane Productions
Nickelodeon Animation Studio
(credited as Nick Jr. Productions for seasons 1–2)
Original release
Network
ReleaseMarch 3, 2006 (2006-03-03)[2] –
October 17, 2016 (2016-10-17)[3]
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Wonder Pets! is an American educational animated musical comedy preschool children'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 operetta.[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.

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  3. ^ "Shows A-Z - wonder pets on nick jr | TheFutonCritic.com". www.thefutoncritic.com. Archived from the original on October 25, 2023. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  4. ^ Wyatt, Edward (March 28, 2006). "Nickelodeon's 'Oobi Wonder Pets' Offers Operetta for Preschoolers". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 23, 2018. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Post Magazine - ANIMATION: 'OOBI THE WONDER PETS!'". www.postmagazine.com. Archived from the original on August 2, 2023. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
  6. ^ "Little Airplane Soars with 'Oobi The Wonder Pets!'". Animation World Network. Archived from the original on March 5, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
  7. ^ "Linny the Guinea Pig "Space and Ocean" | 2005 Tribeca Festival". Archived from the original on September 29, 2019. Retrieved April 7, 2023.