Pearlie
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Pearlie is a 2008 animated comedy series based on the children’s book series Pearlie the Park Fairy by Wendy Harmer. Pearlie is a co-production between Australian children's television producer Sticky Pictures and Canadian animation house Nelvana. The series airs on Australia’s Ten Network and in North America by YTV in Canada and Qubo in America.
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[edit] Synopsis
Pearlie is a park fairy with a giant-sized heart and a wardrobe to match. Appointed by Fairy HQ, Pearlie keeps Jubilee Park in sparkling order. She’s a type A personality full of nutty, over the top plans, parties and events for the park and its residents. She has assistance in Jasper, her right hand elf, although he prefers chilling out to real work. There’s also Opal, an outback fairy from Australia sent to learn the ropes of park management from Pearlie.
But all isn’t perfect in Jubilee Park. Pearlie’s cousin Saphira is jealous of Pearlie’s popularity in the fairy world and desperately wants her job. With her incompetent assistant Ludwig, a bat with a heavy German accent, Saphira sets out to spoil perky Pearlie’s day any way she can. Pearlie remains oblivious – always thinking the best of her cousin – while Opal and Jasper are more hip to Saphira’s game. Saphira resides in the park’s greenhouse, running a day-spa for well-heeled fairies, butterflies and the odd goblin fairy inspector.
[edit] Characters
[edit] Pearlie
Pearlie Appointed by Fairy HQ, Pearlie is a park fairy who keeps Jubilee Park in sparkling order. She is also somewhat of a deluded-do-gooder who thinks she knows what’s best for everyone else. She’s full of over the top plans and parties for the park and its residents. Her own housework is sadly never on her list! Pearlie has no idea of her cousin's evil plans, always thinking the best of her.
[edit] Opal
Opal is a desert fairy from the outback sent to the city to learn the ropes off Pearlie. She hopes to go back to the outback and run her own park one day. Opal doesn't use a wand she has a magic lasso instead. Opal has set up camp in a hollow log at the edge of the desert garden within the park. It’s just like home. A bit of a Tom Boy (or Tom Fairy), Opal is a bootscootin’ dance fanatic and bug rodeo champion. Opal suspects Saphira is up to no good. She likes to think before she does something. She might have a crush on Jasper since she got jealouis when he payed more attention to Fern.
[edit] Jasper
Jasper is a garden elf with dreadlocks he can talk to plants. He is bit lazy and is Pearlie's best friend. He is in love with Fern the wood nymph and loves nature. He doesn't need anything magical to do his job. Jasper lives in an abandoned mailbox at the park gates. Jasper is always trying to get Pearlie to stop her work and smell the roses. He might as well try to convince the sun not to shine.
[edit] Saphira
Saphira is Pearlie's cousin. She calls herself the Queen of Darkness, as all she wears is purple. She lives in the Glasshouse within Jubilee Park and runs it as an exclusive spa. Saphira wants everything Pearlie has – including her job – and spends her days plotting new and dastardly ways to sabotage Pearlie at every turn. Saphira has a ready and willing assistant in Ludwig the bat and the park’s Fairy HQ representative Gobsmack, who’ll do anything for a free facial.
[edit] Ludwig
Ludwig is Saphira's servant bat and sidekick. He cannot live without his 'mistress' and Saphira could not live without him as well. He puts up with her tough love as he’s infatuated with her. Ludwig has a twin bat brother Johann who lives in the wild, but Ludwig prefers being a house-bat, waiting on Saphira claw and wing. He sleeps in a broom closet. She is a snobby character and thinks she over rules everyone else.
[edit] Fern
Fern is a wood nymph who is Jasper's crush in the series. She also shares Jasper's love for nature, having a fascination in particular with birds.
[edit] Great Aunt Garnet
Pearlie’s well-meaning but bumbling Great Aunt Garnet runs a store packed full of potions, lotions and what-not that always work, just not like they’re supposed to. The store is inside a clock tower across the road from the park. She used to be a Fairy Godmother.
[edit] Gobsmack
Gobsmack is the Regional Fairy Inspector, HQ’s representative in Jubilee Park. Panicky Gobsmack is a stickler for the rules, the first to blab if Pearlie’s making a mess of things. Gobsmack doesn’t fly, he has the power of teleportation. He ‘pops’ in at the worst possible moments for Pearlie. Gobsmack is easily manipulated by Saphira. He’s always lured in by a free facial or knee buffing in her spa. He is also very effete (a possible play on the other meaning of "fairy"). His name may be a pun on the band Godsmack.
[edit] Sugar
Sugar is a possum who plays the Bongo drum with Jasper and other possums.
[edit] Scragg and Mr. Flea
Scragg and Flea are "gangsta" rats who spend their days rooting in park garbage for treats. Though a pair of dirty and smelly nuisances, they are respectful towards Pearlie.
[edit] Ned
Ned is Opal's pet from the outback,he is an orange thrilled neck lizard whom Ludewig generally thought he was a dragon,he has only had two apperances and because he sometimes has no 'manners' is why Saphira dislikes Opal.
[edit] Whizzer
Whizzer is a dragonfly who delivers objects around Jubilee Park.
