Sparkle Friends is a New Zealand animated series and segment produced by Mukpuddy Animation for New Zealand's long running children's show, What Now. The series stars the What Now presenters as children and a creature named Gun-gi, who vomits gunge, something that features heavily in What Now.
| Sparkle Friends | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Mukpuddy Animation |
| Voices of | Charlie Panapa Serena Cooper-Rongonui Richard Mills Tāmati Coffey Tumehe Rongonui Jeremy Dillon Jason Gunn |
| Country of origin | New Zealand |
| Production | |
| Running time | 2-3 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | TV2 |
| Release | 7 May 2006 – 25 July 2011 |
Cast edit
- Serena Cooper-Rongonui as herself
- Richard Mills as himself
- Tāmati Coffey as himself
- Tumehe Rongonui as himself
- Jeremy Dillon as Gun-gi and other miscellaneous characters
- Jason Gunn as Camilla and other miscellaneous characters
- Gem Knight as Princess Gem from Gungetonia
- Jarrod Wright as Roadblock
- Richard Simpson as Chafe Duffield
- Jocelyn Dell Christian as Pashmina, the Toothfairy, the Valley Girls, and Lush
- Ryan Cooper as various miscellaneous characters
Episode list edit
Series 1 (2006) edit
Series 1 ran from 7 May to 2 July 2006.
| Number in series |
Number in season |
Title | Original air date | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Got Gunge?" | 7 May 2006 | [1] |
| 2 | 2 | "Snap!" | 14 May 2006 | [2] |
| 3 | 3 | "In the Deep End" | 21 May 2006 | [3] |
| 4 | 4 | "Teething Trouble" | 28 May 2006 | [4] |
| 5 | 5 | "It's All Downhill" | 4 June 2006 | [5] |
| 6 | 6 | "High Score" | 11 June 2006 | [6] |
| 7 | 7 | "Sparkletron" | 18 June 2006 | [7] |
| 8 | 8 | "Survival of the Cutest" | 25 June 2006 | TBA |
| 9 | 9 | "The Sparkle Show" | 25 June 2006 | [8] |
| 10 | 10 | "What Becomes Of The Broken Gungi?" | 2 July 2006 | [9] |
Series 2 (2007) edit
Series 2 ran from 9 May to 9 July 2007.
11. Return of the Gun-gi.
12. Yabba Dabba Don't!
13. Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Gunge
14. Kentucky Fried Charlie
15. Invasion of the Richie Snatchers
15. Beauty and the Yeast
17. Are We There Yeti?
18. Rock'em Sock'em.
19. Insert Coin Here.
20. Send Out the Clowns
Series 3 (2008) edit
Series 3 ran from 15 July to 2 October 2008.
- "Son of a Gun-gi / Camilla at Large"
- "Almost Famous / Short Fuse"
- "Super Tu / Mo' Charlie Mo' Problems"
- "How Now Sea Cow / Summer Knights"
- "The Case of the Muddy Footprints / The Gungiest Place on Earth"
Series 4 (2009-10) edit
Series 4 ran from 17 November 2009 to 15 March 2010.
- "Super Tu 2"
- "Roadblock (Special)"
- "Spooky Sunday / Rainbow Connection"
- "The Girl Next Door / My Tu Front Teeth"
- "Sprinkle Kids / Attack of the 50ft Toby"
Series 5 (2010-11) edit
Series 5 ran from 8 November 2010 to 25 July 2011.
1. Sparkle Friends Next Level Part I
2. Sparkle Friends Next Level Part II
3. The Finale!
References edit
- ^ "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends Episode 1". 9 May 2006.
- ^ "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends Episode 2!!". 22 May 2006.
- ^ "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends Ep3!!". 9 June 2006.
- ^ "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends Ep4". 2 June 2006.
- ^ "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends EP5!!". 20 June 2006.
- ^ "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends Episode 6". 29 June 2006.
- ^ "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends Ep7: Sparkletron". 13 July 2006.
- ^ "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends Ep9: Sparkle Show". 27 July 2006.
- ^ "The MukBlog: Sparkle Friends Ep10: What Becomes of the Broken Gungi". 15 August 2006.