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The Backyardigans, a CGI 2 series from Nickelodeon and Nelvana, features musical adventures that help kids develop their imaginations and express themselves creatively as they sing and dance along with five new TV pals: quick-moving penguin Pablo; mellow moose Tyrone; thrill-seeking, purple-spotted creature Uniqua; lady-like hippo Tasha and Austin, the new kangaroo on the block. For the Backyardigans gang, daily backyard play dates bring fantasy to life. Each episode features four kid-friendly tunes suitable for a sing-a-long. A typical episode could find the five friends embarking on a reggae-inspired pirate adventure or a hip-hop hoe-down-with The Backyardigans, anything is possible.

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Pirate Treasure

Music Genre: Reggae / Ska
X marks the spot on this reggae-style pirate adventure. In two pirate teams, the kids sail the high seas in search of treasure. Who will find it first? And who will walk the plank?

The Heart of the Jungle

MUSIC GENRE: Gilbert and Sullivan
TYRONE is Tarzan and so are PABLO, and AUSTIN! Each Tarzan has a different jungle skill, and they use them all to help UNIQUA the brilliant scientist. Their quest, set to Gilbert and Sullivan-style operetta, is to help tiny Sherman the Worman find his jungle home. Will they succeed? Or will the treacherous jungle force them to bug off?

The Yeti

MUSIC GENRE: James Brown-style funk
PABLO announces that he is the Yeti -- a hairy, smelly creature of the frozen north, who likes to eat raisins and give snow-bellies. (He also likes to get funky to some James Brown-style R&B). He leads UNIQUA, TASHA, and TYRONE on a Yeti-chase, all the way to his igloo in the frozen north.

Defending The Snow Fort

MUSIC GENRE: WESTERN SWING
TYRONE and PABLO are Mounties, defending their snow fort in the rugged Yukon. UNIQUA and TASHA are fearless ski patrollers, looking for someone to save from peril. When they meet up, snowy confusion ensues, to the sound of bouncy Western Swing music.

Secret Mission

MUSIC GENRE: TANGO
PABLO, TYRONE, and UNIQUA are secret agents, sneaking through the Treasure Museum. Tango music propels them through secret passageways, booby traps, and laser-beam security. Can they return the secret treasure to its rightful owner without getting caught?

It's Great To Be A Ghost

MUSIC GENRE: 20s JAZZ, a la CAB CALLOWAY
PABLO, TYRONE, and UNIQUA are ghosts, and they've found the perfect old house to haunt. They practice floating, booing, and other scary stuff. When an unsuspecting stranger (TASHA) shows up, they put their scaring skills to the test.

Riding The Range

MUSIC GENRE: Hip-Hop
Lonesome Cowboy TYRONE rides for Texas, headed for a hip-hop hoe-down. UNIQUA, PABLO and AUSTIN search the western desert for a thievin' bandit who steals cattle and horses and maybe even jump ropes.

Who Goes There?

MUSIC GENRE: FLAMENCO
AUSTIN, PABLO, and UNIQUA are museum art pieces that come alive at night. When Curator TASHA leaves rookie security guard TYRONE alone in the museum to guard the “art” one fateful night, he embarks on an outrageous adventure as he chases the suddenly animate art in and out of paintings and all over the museum. Can Tyrone corral the art and restore order to the museum before Tasha returns in the morning?

Blazing Paddles

MUSIC GENRE: RAI
UNIQUA is the sheriff who keeps her small western town safe for ping-pong. When Ping Pong Bandit PABLO comes to town, his deadly ping-pong moves allow him to beat everybody in town (AUSTIN, TASHA, and TYRONE) and even drive Sheriff Uniqua out. Can Uniqua find a way to come back and reclaim her rightful place — or will the Ping Pong Bandit rule?

Garbage Trek

MUSIC GENRE: FUNK (I.E. PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC)
TASHA, AUSTIN, and UNIQUA are intergalactic garbage collectors who are repeatedly tricked by fearsome Moosian aliens TYRONE and PABLO, who use garbage as power for their spaceship. Can the collectors successfully gather all the space garbage in the galaxy, thwart the garbage-hogging Moosian aliens, and escape a swirling black hole?

Fly Girl

MUSIC GENRE: 1950’S OLDIES
UNIQUA is a 1920’s style pilot who delivers singing telegrams. She travels to places no one else will dare go, for one important reason, to cheer up really grumpy people. Will she lift Pirate Captain Moody’s (PABLO) mood, convince mean and silence obsessed Maharini TASHA that some noise is good, and warm Abominable Snowman TYRONE’S heart?

What’s Bugging You?

MUSIC GENRE: RUMBA
TYRONE and UNIQUA are pest controllers hired to rid TASHA’s house of a mysterious critter before Mr. Spiffy, PABLO, arrives to inspect her house for his Spiffy club. But Tyrone and Uniqua are unfamiliar with WORMANS and inadvertently attract more, creating instead the biggest worman party ever, and messing up Tasha’s house in the process. Will Pablo deny Tasha membership or will he find out wormans are spiffy little critters?

Chichen-Itza Pizza

MUSIC GENRE: COLLEGE FIGHT SONGS  
Mayan pizza delivery girls UNIQUA and TASHA agree to deliver a pizza pie to the King (TYRONE) far across the treacherous, steaming jungle. Can they get themselves past the mysterious pyramids of earth, water, and wind and deliver a fresh steaming hot pizza to the king?

To The Center of The Earth

MUSIC GENRE: 1930’S SMALL BAND NOVELTY (I.E. RAYMOND SCOTT)
TYRONE has lost his lucky penny in the sandbox. When he can’t find it inventors UNIQUA and PABLO are convinced it must be in The Center of The Earth. Off they go to the inventors’ Victorian era work room where they board an earth burrowing rocket ship designed specifically for journeys of this kind. Will Tyrone retrieve his lucky penny? Is it in the Center of The Earth?

Front Page News!

MUSIC GENRE: BERLIN CABARET
TASHA is a photographer and a superhero named SNAP. She really wants a front-page photo for The Bigopolis Big Story, PABLO’S newspaper located in the city of Bigopolis, where there’s always a big story. But when today’s big story, a giant robot threatening to breach the city, proves too much for resident superheroes Captain Bubble (TYRONE) and Bug Girl (UNIQUA), Snap has to step in and save the day. Will Tasha get the front-page photo she so desperately wants?

The Mighty Egg Sitters: (Special Double Episode)

MUSIC GENRE: ROCK OPERETTA (I.E. QUEEN)
Knights UNIQUA and TYRONE are ready to do mighty deeds in service to their King, PABLO. But he wants them to baby sit… an egg? It all seems pretty simple until the egg grows legs and runs away. Then the mighty knights must pursue it — through Goblin land where they encounter a grabbing goblin (AUSTIN), through Fairyland where they meet a tiny but flighty and mischievous fairy (TASHA), all the way to Mount Dragon where they face a mighty dragon. Will the knights face and conquer their greatest challenge yet?

Le Master of Disguise

MUSIC GENRE: JUJU
AUSTIN is a detective who’s in search of the notorious Master of Disguise, PABLO, who can only be identified by his laugh. He follows the laugh onto The Orient Express  from Paris to Istanbul quickly eliminating conductor UNIQUA and the train’s quirky passengers (cowboy TYRONE and juggler TASHA) as suspects because their laughs just don’t match up. Will Austin finally nab Le Master of Disguise?

Match on Mt. Olympus

MUSIC GENRE: SAMBA
Meteorologist TYRONE and sportscaster PABLO operate out of a classic TV station in ancient Greece. Tyrone forecasts a sunny day, which Pablo points out is a great day to play basketball when suddenly it starts to rain. They travel to Mt. Olympus to try to convince the god of weather to make it stop raining. On the way they meet the goddess of naps (UNIQUA) and the god of laughter (AUSTIN) both of whom Pablo teaches a few basketball moves. Finally they encounter the mighty goddess of weather (TASHA) who insists that they beat her in a game before she’ll stop the rain.

The Great Dolphin Race

MUSIC GENRE: CUMBIA
TYRONE is the greatest dolphin racer in the underwater city of Atlantis. UNIQUA is his stable girl who wants nothing more than to be a dolphin racer herself. But when Uniqua rescues a wild dolphin (SEA SQUIRT) from his greatest fear - a menacing giant clam she adopts him and challenges Tyrone to a race, enlisting PABLO as her trainer. Who will win the Great Dolphin Race?

Caveman’s Best Friend

MUSIC GENRE: EARLY SOUL (SAM COOKE)
It’s a pretty exciting day in the stone-age town of Rockville. AUSTIN is getting a new pet dinosaur from pet shop owner UNIQUA. While playing, Austin lets his dinosaur off his leash and he runs away. Uniqua tells him the only way to get him back is to whistle. That would be easy enough if Cop PABLO or fireman TYRONE knew how to whistle. Will Austin get his dinosaur back or will they all meet their fates in one of the local tar pits?

Ranch Hands From Outer Space

MUSIC GENRE: 60’S ITALIAN POP
TASHA is a rancher who wishes she had ranch hands to help with the mountain of work she has to do on her ranch. Not far away, aliens PABLO and UNIQUA sputter to a landing when their spaceship runs out of fuel, zum-zum – or pancakes as we call them on earth. In their search they happen upon Tasha’s ranch and she puts them to work immediately, telling them they can have all the pancakes they desire after they’ve finished. It’s a farcical adventure as the aliens complete the ranch tasks with dazzling alien flair.

Robin Hood The Clean

MUSIC GENRE: COUNTRYPOLITAN (PATSY KLINE)
It’s the annual Festival of Dirt in the village of Filthingham where Mayor AUSTIN STINKYPANTS reigns supreme. The townspeople (TASHA, TYRONE, and UNIQUA) are at their wit’s end when the Mayor confiscates their last bar of soap and locks it away in the dungeon with their other personal hygiene items. Fed up, Tyrone sets off through Purewood forest to find Robin Hood the Clean (PABLO) to free them from Stinkypants and his foul ways.

Escape From Fairytale Village

MUSIC GENRE: BLUEGRASS
TYRONE is a paperboy who has a brand new route through an unknown neighborhood, Fairytale Village. Who can blame him when he thinks the big bad wolf (AUSTIN), a witch who lives in a gingerbread house (UNIQUA), and a giant (PABLO) are out to eat him? A madcap chase through this strange neighborhood including a cloud-land at the top of a beanstalk, culminates with the three surrounding him. Will they have him for dinner, or lunch?

Pirate Camp

MUSIC GENRE: GARAGE BAND
UNIQUA really wants to be a pirate. She convinces a fearful PABLO to go to pirate camp with her where under the tutelage of the great pirate captain, AUSTIN, they will learn to swashbuckle, heave ho, and scalawag. When Austin is captured by a fearsome ghost (TASHA) it’s up to the campers to set him free.

The Two Musketeers

Music Genre: Son
PABLO and TYRONE are The Two (and only) Musketeers. So when a stranger (TASHA) approaches them in the French countryside asking if she can be a Musketeer, they simply cannot accommodate her. But after proving that she has what it takes (she craves adventure, has excellent manners, and makes impeccable balloon animals) all while continually saving them from the Empress’s guards (AUSTIN and UNIQUA) who want to capture them, they can’t deny her wish.

The Masked Retriever

Music Genre: Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
In Viejo California, UNIQUA is a librarian by day, who with her horse TORONADO avenges un-returned library books. When TASHA wants to take a book out and can’t because DON AUSTIN hasn’t returned it Uniqua makes it her mission to get it back. Can she get past Austin’s guards PABLO and TYRONE? And will she ever get that book back?

Pablo

PABLO is, well, wrapped a little too tight. He gets excited by things. Just leaving the house for free play in the backyard can make him babble with joy. He thinks quickly, he speaks quickly, acts and reacts quickly. He gets big ideas but he can be overwhelmed by a situation and panic a little – making him the character most likely to run in a circle flapping his flippers and squawking. (By the way, he’s a penguin.) He may not be the most agile or graceful of the friends, but he's probably the most determined and enthusiastic.

Uniqua

UNIQUA is one of a kind. She’s funny – she loves to tell silly jokes and to tickle her friends. She’s a little mischievous -- she’d be the kid most likely to ring the doorbell and run away. But she’s sweet --she’ll notice if you’re happy or sad and say something about it because she cares about you. Graceful, agile and light on her feet, Uniqua is not afraid of anything and can be quite the daredevil. She loves to run and climb and ride her bike faster than anyone. (Uniqua is her name, and also her species – with her purple skin, pink spots, and dainty antennae, she doesn’t look like any other creature on the planet.)

Austin

AUSTIN is the new kangaroo on the block, so he doesn't yet know the other kids really well. That suppresses his natural bounciness and makes him diffident sometimes – a little hesitant to express his opinion, a little slow to take the lead. He really wants to get it right.

Tyrone

TYRONE is the sunny one. He’s easygoing – he can get along with anybody – Pablo’s his best friend, after all. He takes life’s ups and downs in stride --things just don’t get under his skin. He's a deep thinker, which may make him seem a little slow on the uptake sometimes. He’s confident -- he enjoys a challenge because he knows, in his heart, that he is equal to it. There’s always a way and he’s bound to figure it out. (And he happens to be a moose.)

Tasha

TASHA is a little girl hippo, in red mary janes and a flowered dress. Tasha is Uniqua's much-admired and always eagerly-awaited play date. She looks sweet as pie but underneath her extra girly exterior beats the heart of a CEO -- tough-as-nails, take-no-prisoners, my-way-or-the-highway kind of gal. She's rational, skeptical, and highly motivated to get her own way. But it's always special for Uniqua when Tasha is there, because she's someone who can also be giggly, silly and full of fun.

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