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Fifi and the Flowertots
GenreAnimated Children's television series
Created byKeith Chapman
Voices ofJane Horrocks
Maria Darling
Tim Whitnall
Marc Silk
Joanna Ruiz
Janet James
John Thomson
Theme music composerAlan Coates
Kim Goody (vocals)
Opening theme"Fifi's Theme Tune" performed by Jane Horrocks
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series3
No. of episodes121
Production
Running time29 mins
Production companiesCosgrove Hall Films
Chapman Entertainment
Original release
NetworkFive
Nick Jr.
Release2 May 2005 (2005-05-02) –
2010 (2010)
Related
Roary the Racing Car

Fifi and the Flowertots is a British stop-motion children's television series created by Keith Chapman and produced by Chapman Entertainment and Cosgrove Hall Films. The series originally aired on Five for acquired rights and Nick Jr. for the original series brand in the United Kingdom.

The series features a group of flower-based characters and their adventures and activities through the garden. The title character and hostess, Fifi Forget-Me-Not, is voiced by Jane Horrocks, while the other characters are voiced by Maria Darling, Tim Whitnall, Marc Silk and John Thomson. This series is animated by Cosgrove Hall Films and produced by Chapman Entertainment. Creator Keith Chapman is also the originator of the Bob the Builder series.

Characters

  • Fifi Forget-Me-Not (voiced by Jane Horrocks in the UK and Tara Strong in the US) is the cheerful hostess of the series. She says hello at the beginning of each episode and at the end she says goodbye and promises to come back soon, sometimes, anytime, another time, another day or maybe next time. When she forgets what to do, she says: "Fiddly Flowerpetals!" before describing the problem for the audience to guess. When she remembers, another character says: "Fifi Forget-Me-Not forgot!". Sometimes her catchphrase when she forgets what to do is "Buttercups and Daisies!", and when something is wrong she says: "Diggly Dandelions!". She likes to cook and look after plants. Fifi lives in a watering can house.
  • Aunt Tulip (voiced by Tim Whitnall in the UK and Karen Prell in the US) is Fifi's aunt. She likes to have tea parties and chats with the Flowertots. She lives in a pineapple house and has a pet grub named Grubby. He is very little, and often gets lost. Her catchphrase is "Sweet Potatoes!"
  • Buttercup (voiced by Joanna Ruiz in the UK and US) is a buttercup. She lives in a "Milk Bucket House" with her twin sister Daisy and has a mouse called Cornflower because of his lovely blue colour.
  • Daisy (voiced by Janet James in the UK and US) is a daisy. She is a shy and dreamy Flowertot in comparison to her twin sister Buttercup. She is a little bit clumsy. She loves her comfort duckling toy called "Diddyduck".
  • Poppy (Poppady in the US) (voiced by Maria Darling in the UK and Alice Dinnean in the US) is a poppy who is Fifi's friend. She has a market stall where she sells everything that the Flowertots need for each episode. Lives in a pumpkin house.
  • Primrose (voiced by Jane Horrocks in the UK and Zelda Williams in the US) is Fifi's friend. She is prim and doesn't like getting messy. She always wants to look magnificent. She gets upset when something goes wrong for her. She likes to create apparel for herself and tries to dress Fifi up. Her catchphrase is "I am NOT having a good day!"
  • Violet (voiced by Maria Darling in the UK and Nancy Cartwright in the US) is Fifi's friend. She is very creative and loves painting. Violet lives with Primrose in a marrow house.
  • Pip Gooseberry (voiced by Maria Darling in the UK and BJ Ward in the US) is the youngest of the Flowertots. He likes to help Fifi and Fuzzbuzz in the garden. Sometimes he is too noisy and gets too excited. Fifi looks after him when Stingo and Slugsy play tricks on him. He lives in the gooseberry bushes on his playground.
  • Bumble (Fuzzbuzz in the US) (voiced by Marc Silk in the UK and Greg Cipes in the US) is a bumblebee and Fifi's best friend. He often visits her and is always ready to come to her rescue but isn't good at landing and usually crashes. His catchphrase is "Wiggly Worms!".
  • Stingo (voiced by Tim Whitnall in the UK and Caroll Spinney in the US) a wasp who causes trouble for the Flowertots. He tries to steal food such as cake, blueberries and chocolate. Lives in a red apple house. His catchphrase is "Rotten Raspberries!".
  • Slugsy (voiced by Marc Silk in the UK and Martin P. Robinson in the US) is a slug and Stingo's sidekick. He is always ready to help Stingo but is very slow and often accidentally ruins Stingo's plans. He loves Primrose but doesn't want to admit it. He lives at the top of Stingo's house. He speaks with a lisp.
  • Flutterby (voiced by Tim Whitnall in the UK and Jerry Nelson in the US) is a butterfly. He takes Buttercup and Daisy around the garden and has a landing pad near the girls' house.
  • Webby (voiced by Maria Darling in the UK and Susanne Blakeslee in the US) is a spider. She is the eldest and the wisest in Flowertot Garden. The Flowertots ask her for advice and help, but Stingo and Slugsy avoid her so as not to hit her web. So-called because she lives in a web house.
  • Mo is Fifi's lawnmower, which takes the harvest and the Flowertots around the garden.
  • Diggly (voiced by Nick Wilson in the UK and US) is a grumpy but funny worm. He lives on the compost heap and eats scraps but prefers pumpkin pies.

Episodes

Series 1 (2006)

No.
overall		No. in
series		TitleOriginal air date
11"Fifi's Talent Show"2 May 2006 (2006-05-02)
All the tots enter a talent contest, but Fifi gets so distracted helping everyone else that she has no time to get ready herself! However, her "Fiddly Flowerpetals" song is much better than Slugsy's poem, and she gets a silver medal.
22"Flowertots Fallout"3 May 2006 (2006-05-03)
Fifi tells Bumble off for messing up her flowers by sneezing, and Primrose scolds Violet for her ruined dress while painting the picture. Fifi and Primrose become bored, so Fifi decides to make strawberry tarts and apologize for her mistake.
33"Bumble Catches a Cold"
"Fuzzbuzz Catches a Cold" (United States)		4 May 2006 (2006-05-04)
Bumble is suffering from a cold, so the Flowertots have a picnic at home.
44"Smelly Slugsy"5 May 2006 (2006-05-05)
Primrose is invited over for a meal by Slugsy, but his odour dissuades her from attending. Luckily, Bumble has an idea by touching the flower petals.
55"Bumble Gets a Makeover"
"Fuzzbuzz Gets a Makeover" (United States)		6 May 2006 (2006-05-06)
Fifi helps Bumble to paint his house. Primrose thinks that it's not good enough and asks him to use decorations for beauty. But when everything goes wrong and a ribbon gets stuck into a honey tap, she decides to remove all the decorations and realises that beauty is not always important: the main thing is that everything works very well.
66"Bumble Helps Out"
"Fuzzbuzz Helps Out" (United States)		7 May 2006 (2006-05-07)
Fifi is so busy transferring her flowers from the ground to the pots that she forgets about the tea party. Bumble decides to help out, but he gets stuck in a compost heap and calls Fifi for help.
77"Stingo Gets Stuck"10 May 2006 (2006-05-10)
Stingo attempts to help Webby, whose web has become filthy and made everything come unstuck.
88"Flowertots Go Nuts"11 May 2006 (2006-05-11)
Strange objects have appeared in the garden after a storm. The tots ask Webby what they are and Webby explains that they are nuts and they can use them to make soap. This idea comes in very handy because all the soap has been sold in Poppady's market stall. The Flowertots make soap and Primrose washes the dirt out of her dress, and it becomes as good as new!
99"Bumble's Big Race"
"Fuzzbuzz's Big Race" (United States)		12 May 2006 (2006-05-12)
Stingo challenges Bumble to a race, and decides to win no matter what.
1010"Blueberry Surprise"13 May 2006 (2006-05-13)
Fifi and Bumble offer to help out when Primrose and Violet's garden becomes over-run with fallen blueberries. After that, they decide to make juice but they decide to do it the next day as they are already too tired to do it today.
1111"Picture Perfect"16 May 2006 (2006-05-16)
The Flowertots draw pictures, but all of them are so good that Primrose can't choose a winner. But she makes a prize for Stingo: a set of paints.
1212"Violet's Party"17 May 2006 (2006-05-17)
When Fifi's invitation to Violet's party fails to arrive, she assumes that she has fallen out of favour. But Primrose just moves away from Slugsy's slide, and Violet finally invites Fifi and explains what she has made: jelly, ice cream, cucumber sandwiches, and birthday cake. They go to the party.
1313"Leave It to Stingo"18 May 2006 (2006-05-18)
The wind has been blowing all night, and the garden is all messed up. Stingo promises to clean Fifi's garden and fix Violet and Primrose's chimney and Bumble's gate. Everybody presents him with cake, pie and honey, but when he eats them he forgets about his promise. So as a punishment, he and Slugsy are asked to do all those things.
1414"Mud Spies"19 May 2006 (2006-05-19)
It has been raining, and the garden is muddy. Fifi and Bumble make cakes of mud, and Stingo thinks that they are chocolate, but when he tries them, he finds out that they are inedible.
1515"Treasure Hunt"20 May 2006 (2006-05-20)
Fifi is upset after losing a brooch Violet has made for her. Slugsy finds it, returns it and becomes a real hero. At Bumble's party, Violet is glad to see the brooch again.
1616"Sports Day"23 May 2006 (2006-05-23)
When the Flowertots have a summer sports day, Stingo does his best to win every event possible. Unfortunately for him, his efforts fail at every turn. So Slugsy helps Primrose get back on her feet and win the competition.
1717"Fifi Fee Fi Fo Fum"24 May 2006 (2006-05-24)
Giant footprints appear in the garden after Fifi tells Pip the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Have the gang got a giant on their hands?
1818"Life's a Beach"25 May 2006 (2006-05-25)
When the day is hot, the Flowertots decide to transform the garden into a beach. But where has all the water gone?
1919"Fifi's in Charge"26 May 2006 (2006-05-26)
Poppady asks Pip to look after her market stall and make some deliveries, but suddenly Pip delivers the wrong thing to Primrose.
2020"Hole Lot of Fun"27 May 2006 (2006-05-27)
Fifi and Bumble gather peas. Stingo is bored and wants something exciting to do, so he goes to them and strikes peas into a hole. Bumble asks Violet to make medals. When the competition starts, Webby keeps score and Stingo wins because he has always been able to get the peas into the hole. Everyone eats Aunt Tulip's oat biscuits.
2121"Knitting Nonsense"30 May 2006 (2006-05-30)
Webby has a lot of interesting things and decides to throw them out because she doesn't have enough space. Fifi and the Flowertots deliver them to their friends but Primrose's knitting gets tied to Mo. Fifi goes to Webby and doesn't know whose it is. Then she knits a bag for Primrose and a scarf for Mo. Everybody thanks her.
2222"Spotty Pip"31 May 2006 (2006-05-31)
Stingo tries to convince Pip that he has Flowertot spots, and the only way for Pip to get better is to eat a lot of sweets and get painted with strawberry juice. Stingo's idea has no effect on Pip. Can Fifi and her friends teach Stingo a lesson?
2323"Don't Go Changing!"1 June 2006 (2006-06-01)
Webby catches the Flowertots, who wish they could be more like someone else, but she convinces them that they are perfect just as they are.
2424"The Wasp That Cried Ouch"2 June 2006 (2006-06-02)
The Flowertots are worried when Bumble gets injured. After that they suddenly hear Stingo's cries. He says that his whole body is in pain. Primrose puts a bandage on him and the Flowertots bring him tasty things. While they do this, they say that he has lied to them. When they play golf again, they hear cries again and think that Stingo is faking sick again. But when they come to him they see that he has eaten too much food and he is really ill. They relax, believing that he will be OK soon and that next time he will think before crying "Ouch!".
2525"Primrose's Perfume Song"3 June 2006 (2006-06-03)
Fifi and Bumble set about concocting a new perfume for Primrose, but Bumble confuses the perfume mixture with the contents of the compost bucket. So he throws it out and adds flowers instead. Finally, they make a good perfume for Primrose.
2626"Chocolate Surprise"6 June 2006 (2006-06-06)
Fifi prepares a chocolate cake for the garden party, but needs to buy some eggs. When she goes out for them, Stingo touches the filling and it spills, but that's okay because when Fifi comes back it hardens. All the Flowertots start drinking tea and eating their cake, but Stingo refuses to try chocolate, saying that he hates it.
2727"Pip Learns To Dance"7 June 2006 (2006-06-07)
Pip wants to learn to dance well for the upcoming disco, but who's going to show him all the best moves?
2828"Fizzy Business"8 June 2006 (2006-06-08)
It's a very hot day. Fifi and Bumble make lemonade, but when Fifi goes for bottles it disappears. Bumble and Fifi can't understand where has it all gone, but when they give it out for everybody to drink, they see Stingo and Slugsy hiccupping, and find out that they have drunk it all.
2929"Belle of the Ball"9 June 2006 (2006-06-09)
All the Flowertots get ready for an annual summer ball, but Fifi is so busy helping everybody else with their outfits that she even doesn't know which outfit to wear. But she collects flower petals and makes a ball dress of them. Everybody is very beautiful at the ball, and Pip gets medal but he gives it to Fifi for helping him to get ready for the ball. Stingo and Slugsy eat lots of sweets and leave the ball.
3030"Flying Lessons"10 June 2006 (2006-06-10)
Stingo gets irritated with Slugsy for being so slow all the time, so Slugsy asks the other Flowertots to help him get airborne.
3131"Fifi's Big Crunch Day"13 June 2006 (2006-06-13)
The Flowertots have grown their own fruit and vegetables to eat on Big Crunch Day to keep their teeth healthy, but Bumble discovers that his peas have gone mushy. Stingo and Slugsy have grown a big juicy apple but they eat Poppady's candies instead and get toothaches.
3232"Fifi's Scarecrow"14 June 2006 (2006-06-14)
Fifi tries to build a scarecrow to frighten away the butterflies which keep eating her vegetables. But when it fails to scare them off and Grubby gets frightened of Primrose, she steps in and exchanges Primrose's clothes and the scarecrow clothes. The butterflies get frightened and fly out of the garden. Finally, Fifi shows the Flowertots what she has grown and sings them a song.
3333"Soup of the Day"15 June 2006 (2006-06-15)
It's a cold day in the garden so the Flowertots make soup. Primrose asks to bring the required ingredients, but everybody is out of peas. When she boils her peas in the pan and forgets about her soup, it suddenly burns. The Flowertots boil it again, since they already have the vegetables they need, and invite everybody to eat it.
3434"Fiddlesticks Fifi"16 June 2006 (2006-06-16)
Fifi is concerned when Bumble does not return after going to look for a spade, but the Flowertots soon hear some peculiar noises. Fifi tells everybody that it's nonsense but then recognizes the noise: Bumble is lost in the bushes. Aunt Tulip gives him a drink with honey and cinnamon and he starts feeling fine. Fifi promises to listen to everything very carefully without saying "Fiddlesticks!".
3535"Fifi's Good Turn"17 June 2006 (2006-06-17)
Aunt Tulip is giving out a prize for the best garden. Stingo and Slugsy pretend that they are in great pain, so Fifi has to clean their garden. But when she does it, Stingo and Slugsy get a prize for cleaning Fifi's garden, and so they have to do it.
3636"Forget Me Tot"20 June 2006 (2006-06-20)
Fifi is hanging out her washing when she discovers she has run out of clothes pegs. She goes to Poppady's market, and Poppady reminds Fifi that she has promised to help her wash the potatoes. Suddenly she remembers that she had promised to help Violet, Primrose, Pip and Bumble. So poor Fifi lends Webby a helping hand. Then Fifi helps everybody, and everybody thanks her for helping. Then she goes to Stingo and gives him a chocolate-covered strawberry for "Wasps Love Day". Slugsy goes to Poppady's market to buy some honey.
3737"Fancy Free Fifi"21 June 2006 (2006-06-21)
Bumbpe and Violet persuade Fifi to take a day off from all her gardening, assuring her that they can look after it for her. But they were unable to do all the jobs: beetles assaulted Fifi's potatoes.
3838"Stingo's Shopping Spree"22 June 2006 (2006-06-22)
Stingo and Slugsy are being unusually helpful, offering to do everybody's shopping for them. Could they be up to no good?
3939"Fifi Follows Clues"23 June 2006 (2006-06-23)
Fifi has baked the pies, but when she and Bumble go to get blueberries to make juice, Stingo and Slugsy steal a carrot cake, a blueberry pie and honey flat cakes. When Fifi, Bumble and Primrose see that they have disappeared, they have to find them by clues so they don't have to cancel such a sweet party. Primrose follows the honey footprints to find the thief.
4040"Big Band Night"24 June 2006 (2006-06-24)
On the day of the Flowertot concert, Fifi gets a sore throat and Bumble loses his drum kit, almost forcing the two to cancel the show if Bumble can't find the drums and Fifi can't cure her throat with his honey, which has also mysteriously disappeared.
4141"Daisy Chain Dance"27 June 2006 (2006-06-27)
The tots are hoping to hold their annual daisy chain dance in the garden but it is all muddy. Can Fifi come up with an idea to ensure the show goes on?
4242"Fun at the Fair"28 June 2006 (2006-06-28)
4343"Flowertot Babysitter"29 June 2006 (2006-06-29)
4444"Sing-Along Songs"30 June 2006 (2006-06-30)
4545"Pip the Gardener"1 July 2006 (2006-07-01)
4646"Slugsy's Rescue"4 July 2006 (2006-07-04)
4747"Flowertot Milkshake"5 July 2006 (2006-07-05)
4848"Flowertot Rainbow"6 July 2006 (2006-07-06)
4949"Frosty Morning"7 July 2006 (2006-07-07)
5050"Poppy's Day Off"
"Poppady's Day Off"		8 July 2006 (2006-07-08)
5151"Can We Have Our Ball Back Please?"11 July 2006 (2006-07-11)
5252"Violet's Big Bracelet"12 July 2006 (2006-07-12)

Series 2 (2007)

No.
overall		No. in
series		TitleOriginal air date
531"Compost Chaos"1 May 2007 (2007-05-01)
542"Bumble's Afraid of the Dark"
"Fuzzbuzz's Afraid of the Dark"		2 May 2007 (2007-05-02)
553"Count on Fifi"3 May 2007 (2007-05-03)
564"Poppady The Line Dancing Queen"4 May 2007 (2007-05-04)
575"King Stingo"5 May 2007 (2007-05-05)
586"Hide and Seek"8 May 2007 (2007-05-08)
597"My Friend Fifi"9 May 2007 (2007-05-09)
608"Diggly's Big Adventure"10 May 2007 (2007-05-10)
619"Pip's Playground"11 May 2007 (2007-05-11)
6210"Mud Sculptures"12 May 2007 (2007-05-12)
6311"Stingo's Naughty Day"15 May 2007 (2007-05-15)
6412"Shrinking Pip"16 May 2007 (2007-05-16)
6513"Bumble's Special Lunch"
"Fuzzbuzz's Special Lunch"		17 May 2007 (2007-05-17)
6614"Fifi Miss Me Not"18 May 2007 (2007-05-18)
6715"Pirate Primrose"19 May 2007 (2007-05-19)
6816"Primrose Loses It"22 May 2007 (2007-05-22)
6917"Doctor Webby"23 May 2007 (2007-05-23)
7018"Make Room For Fifi"24 May 2007 (2007-05-24)
7119"Slugsy's Song"25 May 2007 (2007-05-25)
7220"Stingo's Bridge"26 May 2007 (2007-05-26)
7321"Violet's Flower Festival"29 May 2007 (2007-05-29)
7422"Pumpkin Pie for Diggly"30 May 2007 (2007-05-30)
7523"Rockabye Stingo"31 May 2007 (2007-05-31)
7624"Inspector Stingo"1 June 2007 (2007-06-01)
7725"Fifi's Busy Day"2 June 2007 (2007-06-02)
7826"Dingaling Poppy"
"Dingaling Poppady"		5 June 2007 (2007-06-05)
7927"Fifi's Film Show"6 June 2007 (2007-06-06)
8028"Pip and the Genie"7 June 2007 (2007-06-07)
8129"Runaway Mo"8 June 2007 (2007-06-08)
8230"Stingo's Enormous Carrot"9 June 2007 (2007-06-09)
8331"Fifi's Pancake Fun"12 June 2007 (2007-06-12)
8432"Pip's Pony"13 June 2007 (2007-06-13)
8533"Aunt Tulip's Carnival"14 June 2007 (2007-06-14)
8634"Storm"15 June 2007 (2007-06-15)
8735"Just One Hornetto"16 June 2007 (2007-06-16)
8836"Wasps"19 June 2007 (2007-06-19)
8937"Slugsy Won't Slide"20 June 2007 (2007-06-20)
Slugsy puts too much slime on his slide and gets scared that he will slip off.
9038"The Flowertot Taxi"21 June 2007 (2007-06-21)
9139"Fifi's Happy Day"22 June 2007 (2007-06-22)
9240"Fly High Primrose"23 June 2007 (2007-06-23)
9341"Lovelorn Slugsy"26 June 2007 (2007-06-26)
9442"Fifi's Snowy Fun"27 June 2007 (2007-06-27)
9543"Mystery in Flowertot Garden"28 June 2007 (2007-06-28)
9644"Stingo Cleans Up"29 June 2007 (2007-06-29)
9745"My Fair Bumble"
"My Fair Fuzzbuzz"		30 June 2007 (2007-06-30)
9846"Pineapple Palace Panic"3 July 2007 (2007-07-03)
9947"Poppy's Great Race"
"Poppady's Great Race"		4 July 2007 (2007-07-04)
10048"Big Blueberry Hunt"5 July 2007 (2007-07-05)
10149"Pip and the Wizard"6 July 2007 (2007-07-06)
10250"Snowtime for Pip"7 July 2007 (2007-07-07)
10351"Grubby Ahoy"10 July 2007 (2007-07-10)
10452"Stingo Has Visitors"11 July 2007 (2007-07-11)

References

  1. ^ "Target Brings New Fifi, Roary Series to MIPTV". 18 February 2009.
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