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Plot Summary:
My Dad the Rock Star is a Canadian animated television series created by KISS bassist Gene Simmons, and produced by Canadian company Nelvana for the Canadian based channel Teletoon, and on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons Channel in the United States, andon Pop! and Kix! in the UK. The show focuses on Willy Zilla, an ordinary timid teen boy just trying to be normal person despite being the son of a flamboyant, rich, and lively celebrity rock star named Rock Zilla.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Animation, Family, Comedy, Music
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good
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Growing Up Creepie (2006)
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Growing Up Creepie was an animated television series made in the USA and Canada by Mike Young Productions and produced by Discovery Kids. In other countries, the series was simply titled Creepie. The series aired 52 episodes, and it would have aired more, but Discovery Kids was replaced with The Hub.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA, Ireland, Singapore, South Korea
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, entertaining, contemplative, spooky
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Bobby's World (1990)
Plot Summary:
Bobby Generic lives in a typical suburban neighborhood and uses his overactive imagination to discover a world of daring adventure, incredible wonder and lots of laughs — all in pint-sized perspective.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, 2d animation
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I Got A Rocket! (2006)
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I Got a Rocket is an Australian animated series centered on a boy named Vincent "Vinnie", who received a rocket for his 13th birthday. The rocket was also given a personality, acts as a best friend to Vinnie and is fond of assisting him. Although the series was short-lived, it received a 2008 Emmy Award for "New Approaches - Daytime Children's Entertainment". I Got a Rocket was originally a book by Matt Zurbo, but was converted into an animated series. It features the voices of Thomas Bromhead as Rocket, Jamie Oxenbould as Vincent "Vinnie", Marcello Fabrizi as Vinnie's father, V. P. Stern, etc., Drew Forsythe as Ma Ducky, Biffo and Scuds Ducky, Trilby Glover as Gabby and Maya and Rachel King as Crystal and Frankie Ducky.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Australia, Singapore, South Korea, Germany
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, exciting
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Little Nick (2009)
Plot Summary:
Nicolas has lots of energy and loves to play with his friends. The boys are quite imaginative and have lots of great ideas, for no apparent reason the adults do not appreciate their efforts. Time after time our heroes fall into trouble because of those misunderstandings. The series is based on books by René Goscinny and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Animation
Country: France
Duration: 13 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, feel good, computer animated
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Olivia (2009)
Plot Summary:
Tag along with enthusiastic 6-year-old girl pig Olivia and her closest friends as they use the power of their imaginations to solve everyday problems and embark on fun-filled adventures in this charming Nick Jr. series. Designed with preschoolers in mind, this animated program based on the children's books by Ian Falconer encourages young viewers to embrace their creativity and pursue their goals with confidence.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: UK, USA, Ireland
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Connie the Cow (2002)
Plot Summary:
Connie is a young cow who is very curious about everything. Each day, she meets new friends and explores the colorful world around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Canada, Spain, Germany, UK
Duration: 7 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating
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Dennis & Gnasher (2009)
Plot Summary:
Based on the iconic D.C. Thomson comic strip Dennis the Menace, this 2D-animated series follows the mischievous adventures of Dennis and his best friend Gnasher the dog.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good, 2d animation
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Angelo Rules (2010)
Plot Summary:
Angelo is a problem child and, with his two best friends, causes a lot of trouble in the neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: France, UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, sincere, captivating, realistic, slapstick comedy, nostalgic
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Henry Hugglemonster (2013)
Plot Summary:
Henry Hugglemonster is the story of a mischievous 5-year-old monster named Henry who loves adventures, discoveries, and being with his family. Each day brings new opportunities for Henry to explore his feelings and learn important life lessons about working with others, showing kindness, and getting along with siblings. Henry finds love and support from his parents, Daddo and Momma; and his brothers and sisters, Cobby , Summer, and Ivor.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: Ireland, UK, USA, South Korea, Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, feel good, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, contemplative
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Timothy Goes to School (2000)
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Timothy Goes to School is a cartoon series based on the Yoko series and other individual books by Rosemary Wells such as "Shy Charles", "Fritz and the Mess Fairy" and "Noisy Nora", but is titled after the book of the same name. It features a young raccoon, Timothy, who attends a fictional primary school. The series aired on PBS Kids as part of the PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch from 2000 until 2004. Reruns were later broadcast on Discovery Kids in the US until 2006. This show airs on YTV, Treehouse TV, and TVO Kids in Canada, and also Tiny Pop, a digital TV channel in the UK. In Brazil was aired on TV Cultura. In Mexico and Latin America, was broadcast on ZAZ. The series premiered on September 30, 2000 and aired its last episode on December 28, 2001.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, 2d animation
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Babar (1989)
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Babar is a Canadian/French/Japanese animated television series produced in Quebec, Canada by Nelvana Limited and The Clifford Ross Company. It premiered in 1989 on CBC and HBO, subsequently was rerun on HBO Family and Qubo. The series is based on Jean de Brunhoff's original Babar books, and was Nelvana's first international co-production. The series' 78 episodes have been broadcast in 30 languages in over 150 countries. Episodes of Babar currently air on Ion Television and Qubo. While the French author Laurent de Brunhoff pronounces the name Babar as "BUH-bar", the TV series in its first five seasons pronounces the name as "BAB-bar". In 2010, a computer-animated sequel series spin-off of Babar titled Babar and the Adventures of Badou was launched. The new series focuses on a majority of new characters.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, light, retro, touching
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Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks (2006)
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Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks is a children's show on Discovery Kids, that premiered in the fall of 2006 and was produced by Endgame Entertainment and Bigfoot. It is a CGI-style animation, presenting the fictional adventures of some monster trucks with the personalities of young children. In 2007, Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks was nominated for an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Special Class Animated Program category. Head writers credited on the show were Ken Cuperus, Alice Prodanou and Dave Dias. The series was cancelled on October 11, 2010, because of the last day of Discovery Kids' broadcast. Its successor, Hub Network, has not included it in their lineup, so the ending of the series is in limbo. It is currently seen on Simle of a Child as "Monster Truck Adventures".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Kenny the Shark (2003)
Plot Summary:
Kenny the Shark is an animated television series produced by Discovery Kids. The show premiered on NBC's Discovery Kids on NBC from November 1, 2003 and ended February 18, 2006 with two seasons and 26 episodes having been shown. The series continued to run on Discovery Kids until the network changed into The Hub on October 10, 2010. Discovery Kids closed with a 4 hour marathon of Kenny the Shark episodes. Despite the closure, it still aired on The Hub until March 25, 2012. It is about an anthropomorphic tiger shark named Kenny that decides to move out of the ocean. He was the protagonist and main character in the series. This was not Kenny's first appearance, however. In the late-1990s, a series of shorts ran between regular programming. Kenny was not seen, as the camera was from his point of view. A contest was held to guess what kind of shark Kenny was with the result being a tiger shark.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating
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The New Adventures of Lassie (2014)
Plot Summary:
For generations, Lassie the beautiful collie has been known and loved by viewers all over the world. Once again she enters the homes of millions of viewers as she talks for the first time in a TV adventure series for children aged 6 to 9.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: India, Germany, USA, France
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, feel good, realistic, anime, humorous, semi serious
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Bratz (2005)
Plot Summary:
Bratz is a computer-animated television series, based on a line of toy dolls of the same name. It is produced by Mike Young Productions and MGA Entertainment, and premiered on 4Kids TV on the Fox Television Network.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, realistic, 3d animation
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Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends (2004)
Plot Summary:
Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends is an animated program based on the children's books by David Kirk, which airs on Nick Jr. in the United States, on Treehouse TV in Canada, and on Discovery Kids in Brazil. Each episode follows the everyday adventures of a family of bugs, who have made their home in what is called the Hollow Tree, led by the gentle, kind-hearted Miss Spider. Our gifts, they are many: We hop, fly and crawl. But kindness is the finest of all! - Miss Spider.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, computer animated
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Willa's Wild Life (2008)
Plot Summary:
Willa's Wild Life is a French/Canadian/American animated television series that first aired on ABC2 in 2008, then on Qubo and Nickelodeon Canada in 2009. The show is based on Dan Yaccarino's book An Octopus Followed Me Home. It is about a 9 year old girl named Willa who has some very unusual pets. She has, so far, acquired a giraffe, two elephants, an alligator, and many more exotic animals. The show airs on Qubo at 5:00 pm and 10:00 pm Monday - Sunday, and 9:30 am on Fridays at ION Television.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Animation, Family
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sincere, feel good, captivating
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Catscratch (2005)
Plot Summary:
Catscratch is an American animated television series created by Doug TenNapel. It was aired on both Nickelodeon and Nicktoons in 2005. It was also shown on Nickelodeon UK / Ireland in 2006. It is a lighthearted adaptation of TenNapel's graphic novel, Gear, which is also the name of the cats' monster truck. The series features music composed by longtime TenNapel collaborator, Terry Scott Taylor. Catscratch's first DVD appearance was on Nick Picks Vol. 3, which came out February 7, 2006.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, inspirational, exciting, offbeat, children's program, surreal, 2d animation
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Peep and the Big Wide World (2004)
Plot Summary:
Peep and the Big Wide World is an animated cartoon that teaches nature and basic science concepts to preschoolers. The main characters include a yellow baby chick named Peep and his friends Quack, a teenaged blue drake, and Chirp, a baby red robin with pink eyelids. The current show, narrated by Joan Cusack is based on a National Film Board of Canada cartoon short of the same name, created in 1988 by Kaj Pindal and narrated by Peter Ustinov, and another short, "The Peep Show", from 1962. The original short comprised three 10-minute films featuring Peep, Quack, and Chirp as they meet a cat, a ladybug, a turtle and a frog who speaks from both sides of his mouth. The show is produced by WGBH in Boston and 9 Story Entertainment in Toronto, Canada. In the US, this show formerly aired on Discovery Kids as part of its commercial-free and sponsor-free "Ready, Set, Learn!" programming block. It now airs nationally in the United States on public television, distributed by American Public Television. In Canada, it airs on TVOntario. DVDs and books are also available for purchase. Peep and the Big Wide World is currently sponsored by the National Science Foundation in conjunction with WGBH-TV as part of an education and outreach program. The principal investigator is Kate Taylor, also of the ZOOM block. The National Science Foundation is the only permanent sponsor of the show. Northrop Grumman, The Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Toyota funded the show for only season two. The Discovery Kids Foundation funded the show for only season one. In 1999, the show was produced by Clumsy PriStar Television. The VHS copies are produced from Clumsy Pristar's home viewings.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, clever, educational
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The Littles (1983)
Plot Summary:
The Littles is an animated television series based on The Littles characters in a series of children's novels by American author John Peterson, the first of which was published in 1967. This cartoon was produced by a French/American/Canadian animation studio, DIC Entertainment, and as standard practice for TV cartoons of the period, the animation production was outsourced overseas to the Japanese studio TMS Entertainment. It was post-produced by a Canadian Animation studio, Animation City Editorial Services.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, France, Japan, Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious, nostalgic
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The Backyardigans (2001)
Plot Summary:
Meet five lively animal friends who love to sing, dance and use their imaginations to embark on outrageous adventures to magical places.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, computer animated, exciting, motion capture, nostalgic
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The Mighty B! (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Mighty B! is an American animated television series co-created by Amy Poehler, Cynthia True and Erik Wiese for Nickelodeon. The series centers on Bessie Higgenbottom, an ambitious Honeybee girl scout who believes she will become The Mighty B if she collects every Honeybee badge. Bessie lives in San Francisco with her single mother Hilary, brother Ben and dog Happy. Poehler provides the voice of Bessie, who is loosely based on a character Poehler played on the improvisational comedy troupes Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade. The Mighty B! premiered on Saturday, April 26, 2008, which was the morning after Poehler's film Baby Mama had premiered. She said that she would "go to bed and stay in my pajamas until 10:30 a.m. and watch Mighty B". Since its debut, the show has attracted an average 3.1 million viewers. In the second quarter of 2008, the show ranked among the top five animated programs on television. In September 2008, the show was renewed for a second season with 20 episodes that premiered on September 21, 2009. The second season was the last, since The Mighty B! was not featured in Nickelodeon's list of renewed shows for the 2010–2011 TV season. The Mighty B! has been nominated for six Annie Awards and four Daytime Emmy Awards, so far winning one Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation. It has garnered one Artios Award nomination and one Golden Reel Award nomination.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Short, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, not serious, captivating, sitcom, nostalgic
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The Kids from Room 402 (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Kids from Room 402 is a television program that originally aired on Fox Family in the USA starting in 1999, previously aired on Teletoon, and currently airs in the UK. The show is focused primarily on the students from Room 402, as the title implies. Miss Graves, the teacher, is usually shown as an interlocutor in the problems and injustices that are inflicted upon the students, whether the dilemmas be internal or external. Each show usually ends with a substantiated moral or lesson resulting from such aforementioned situations. The show is based on the children's book The Kids from Room 402 by Betty Paraskevas and Michael Paraskevas. It was developed for television by Cindy Begel and Lesa Kite who wrote all 52 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, non-linear, retro, sentimental, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Garfield and Friends (1988)
Plot Summary:
The animated stories of Garfield the cat, Odie the dog, their owner Jon and the trouble they get into. And also Orson the Pig and his adventures on a farm with his fellow farm animals.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada, Australia, Taiwan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, captivating, feel good, retro, adult animation, slapstick, slapstick comedy
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Camp Lazlo (2005)
Plot Summary:
Camp Lazlo! is an American animated television series created by Joe Murray. The series was released on July 8, 2005, in the United States and was released on November 1, 2005, in the United Kingdom. The show features a Boy Scout-like summer camp with a cast of anthropomorphic animal characters, a "retro" type of humor and silliness akin to Murray's previous series, Rocko's Modern Life, which aired on Nickelodeon a decade earlier, and cultural references. The series ended its two-and-a-half-year run on Cartoon Network on March 27, 2008, with the series finale "Lumpus' Last Stand" after 5 seasons and 61 episodes. This series returned to Cartoon Network in October 2012 in re-runs on the revived block, Cartoon Planet. The show's theme song is sung to the tune of Bingo.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, South Korea, Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, cult classic, nostalgic
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The Proud Family (2001)
Plot Summary:
"The Proud Family" follows the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old African American girl who's doing her best to navigate through the early years of teen-dom. Penny's every encounter inevitably spirals into bigger than life situations filled with hi-jinks, hilarity and heart. Her quest to balance her home, school and social lives are further complicated by friends like the sassy Dijonay, Penny's nemesis LaCienega Boulevardez, her loving, if not over-protective parents and her hip-to-the-groove-granny, Suga Mama.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, sitcom, multicultural, realistic, educational, smart, clever, black cinema
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Fatherhood (2004)
Plot Summary:
Fatherhood is an American animated television series revolving around the Bindlebeep family and various happenings, inspired by the book of the same name by Bill Cosby. This was Nick at Nite's first original animated series. It has aired on Nick at Nite and Nickelodeon. It was canceled in 2005.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, light, captivating, entertaining, adult animation, anime, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Guess How Much I Love You (2012)
Plot Summary:
Based on the books by Sam McBratney, and illustrated by Anita Jeram, Guess How Much I Love You sees Little and Big Nutbrown Hare explore their beautiful surroundings, play with their friends and delight in the love between them. The series not only explores the tender idea of the boundless love between father and son, but opens up their world... a beautiful and pristine valley full of playful friends and delights of nature in every season.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia, UK, Singapore
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, entertaining, captivating, touching, semi serious
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All Grown Up! (2003)
Plot Summary:
All Grown Up! is an animated television series created by Arlene Klasky and Gábor Csupó for Nickelodeon. After the success of All Growed Up, the Rugrats 10th anniversary special, Nickelodeon commissioned All Grown Up! as a spin-off series based on the episode. The series ran from April 12, 2003 to August 17, 2008, and currently airs in reruns on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons. The show aired in reruns on The N from August 18, 2003 until November 12, 2005, it was dropped from the channel on February 2006, but then returned in April 2007 until June 25, 2009, then on July 7, 2009, All Grown Up! was dropped from The N again. The show's premise is that the characters of the Rugrats are ten years older. Tommy, Dil, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Kimi, Angelica and Susie now have to deal with teen and pre-teen issues and situations. It was the first Nicktoon spin-off receiving positive review among critics, and developed a cult following after its run.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, exciting, nostalgic
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Pound Puppies (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of pound dogs make it their mission to place puppies with their perfect person and have lots of adventures along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, feel good, exciting