Pupstruction

Pupstruction
Created by	Travis Braun
Voices of	Yonas Kibreab Carson Minniear Scarlett Kate Ferguson Mica Zeltzer Grey DeLisle Yvette Nicole Brown Bobby Moynihan Kari Wahlgren Eric Bauza Alessandra Perez
Theme music composer	Rob Cantor
Opening theme	"Pupstruction Theme" by the cast
Ending theme	"Pupstruction Theme" (instrumental)
Composers	Greg Nicolett Rob Cantor
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	32
Production
Executive producers	Travis Braun Victor Cook Chris Prynoski Shannon Prynoski Ben Kalina
Running time	22 minutes (2 11-minute segments)
Production company	Titmouse, Inc.
Original release
Network	Disney Jr.
Release	June 14, 2023 (2023-06-14) – present (present)

Pupstruction is an American animated television series created by Travis Braun that premiered on Disney Jr. on June 14, 2023. It was produced by Titmouse, Inc. The series centers on the crew of a dog construction company. On January 13, 2023, five months prior to premiering, it was renewed for a second season, which premiered on October 14, 2024.

In February 2024, ahead of the second season premiere, the series was renewed for a third season.

Premise

The Pupstruction crew are a group of dogs who fulfill construction projects around the city of Petsburg, sometimes at the request of Mayor Gillmore. They would tend to different construction projects while contending with their foil the Lickety Split construction company led by Bobby Boots.

In addition to different dog-related puns like "Woofles" (a dog version of waffles), "Pawnut" (a dog version of peanut), "Pupcakes" (a dog version of cupcakes), "Pupsicles" (a dog version of popsicles), and "Barkberry" (a dog version of blueberry), most episodes have a musical number where the Pupstruction's common songs are "We Got a Job to Do" and "It's Time to Build".

Characters

Pupstruction

• Phinny (voiced by Yonas Kibreab) is a 7-year-old Welsh Corgi who is the captain and architect of the Pupstruction crew and the smallest of the crew. His vehicle is a crane. Phinny's catchphrase is "Let's crank it up." Sometimes, Phinny will ride around on a bone-shaped skateboard.
• Tank (voiced by Carson Minniear) is a 8-year-old Neapolitan Mastiff and the largest of the crew who supplies the materials for construction, enjoys different types of food, and has a soft spot for the cuddly animals. His vehicle is a dump truck. Tank's catchphrase is "Ready to haul."
• Roxy (voiced by Scarlett Kate Ferguson) is a 9-year-old Rottweiler with walking wheels in place of her back legs who enjoys demolition and is the oldest of the crew. Her vehicle is a wrecking ball/front loader hybrid. Roxy's catchphrase is "Let's crush this!"
• Luna (voiced by Mica Zeltzer) is an 8-year-old Old English Sheepdog who does the digging operations. Her vehicle is a backhoe called Scoopy. Luna's catchphrase is "I dig it!" On occasion, Luna will end up chasing her tail who she names Mr. Tail.
• Maya (voiced by Grey DeLisle) is a dalmatian who is the mother of Phinny and Bailey and boss of the Pupstruction crew. She is bilingual as she speaks English and Spanish. Maya's vehicle is a helicopter.
• Harry (voiced by Eric Bauza) is a Welsh Corgi who is the father of Phinny and Bailey. He's a chef who loves cooking food for his family and the Pupstruction Crew. Harry's vehicle is a food truck. He loves his son, but can be very overprotective at times, to the point of worrying too much.
• Bailey (voiced by Alessandra Perez) is a 3-year-old toddler dalmatian who is Phinny's baby sister whose age hasn't been determined even though she celebrates her birthday in "Bailey's Birthday". She seems to enjoy construction just like her older brother and mother, but sometimes also enjoys demolition just like Roxy.
• Grandma Dee (voiced by Olga Merediz) is a dalmatian who is Phinny and Bailey's maternal grandmother, and the founder of Pupstruction. Her vehicle is a weathered pink dump truck. Grandma Dee built her own dump truck and taught some of her construction skills to Maya. It is mentioned that Grandma Dee built most of the buildings in Petsburg.

Recurring

• Mayor Gilmore (voiced by Yvette Nicole Brown) is a goldfish who is the Mayor of Petsburg and resides in a fishbowl. Her favorite color is purple. Mayor Gilmore is one of Pupstruction's most frequent callers.
  • Lloyd (voiced by Eric Bauza) is a gerbil who is Mayor Gilmore's personal assistant and helps to carry around Mayor Gilmore's fishbowl to different locations. He sometimes sends Pupstruction the locations of their builds.
• Bobby Boots (voiced by Bobby Moynihan) is a cat who is the leader and manager of the Lickety Split construction team and the most frequently recurring antagonist in the series. He desperately wants his team to be great and admired, but his rushing style of doing things and incomplete builds, hence the name Lickety Split, is often a recipe for disaster. Bobby and the Lickety Split crew would ride in the Destructo-Truck which comes in handy for Bobby's plots. On occasion when he gets busted by Pupstruction for sabotage upon their completion of a project, Bobby would apologize for his actions.
  • Scratch and Sniff (voiced respectively by Kari Wahlgren and Eric Bauza) are Bobby's workers and henchmen. Scratch is a tall and slender cat with a bandage on her tail while Sniff is a large and fat cat. They would at times come up with suggestions on how to do a better job, but Bobby would always ignore them. Scratch and Sniff are often quite gullible where they sometimes accidentally expose Bobby's actions to the pups. Unlike their leader, they would celebrate a successful build by Pupstruction and sometimes even celebrate with them much to Bobby’s dismay.
• Pat (voiced by Jeff Bennett) is a pigeon who works as a mail carrier.
• Floyd (voiced by Eric Bauza) is a gerbil and Lloyd's brother who is an air traffic controller for Petsburg's bird community.

Episodes

Series overview

Season	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	25		June 14, 2023 (2023-06-14)	July 17, 2024 (2024-07-17)
2	TBA		October 14, 2024 (2024-10-14)	TBA

Season 1 (2023–24)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Storyboard directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Built to Build"	Josh Greer	Travis Braun	June 14, 2023 (2023-06-14)	101	N/A
		"Pup DE-struction"	David M. Rodriguez
On Phinny's first day on the Pupstruction crew, the crew has to build a bridge across a river so children can go to school. Phinny doubts himself at first, but he is reminded by a Ferris Wheel made out of woofles that he made earlier that morning. That gives him an idea to move the old Ferris Wheel in Petsburg to the area where the bridge should've gone instead of building a bridge. The idea is so successful that Phinny is appointed the captain of Pupstruction the next day. Mayor Gilmore asks the Pupstruction crew to build a skateboarding park for the children. When the crew goes over to the construction site that Lloyd sent them to, they see that a giant boulder is in the way. Roxy volunteers to destroy it. However, all her attempts to destroy the boulder fail. After none of the other crew members can move the boulder, Roxy realizes that Phinny was right when he told her earlier that demolition isn't always the answer to a problem with construction. The crew then decides to turn the boulder into part of the skateboarding park.
2	2	"Hush Puppies"	David M. Rodriguez	Niki Lytton	June 14, 2023 (2023-06-14)	102	N/A
		"Beach Day Build-Off"	Josh Greer	Robyn Brown
Pupstruction needs to build a new house for the Wagner family after Mr. and Mrs. Wagner have quadruplets. When they try to do construction where the Wagners' house used to be, the Wagners' next door neighbor, a chinchilla rapper named Chilla Chill, tells the crew to build quietly as he is trying to get some sleep before his concert later that evening. The Pupstruction crew tries to build without any loud noises, to no avail. When Harry brings pawnut (peanut) butter sandwiches to the crew, he suggests they build the house far away from the construction site; however, this fails too, but then Phinny, inspired by the pillow fort the Wagners made, decides to build a pillow fort around Chilla Chill's house so that he won't hear their noises. After they finish their house, Chilla Chill used the noises of construction as inspiration to write a new song and lets Pupstruction be in his show. Pupstruction is at the beach, and Phinny is building sandcastles. Meanwhile, Bobby Boots looks at them. He decided to have a sandcastle building contest with Pupstruction, with Mayor Gilmore as the judge. Pupstruction's castle ends up looking better than Lickety-Split's castle, so Bobby decides to sabotage Pupstruction by using a device that makes waves to make a wave that destroys Pupstruction's castle. Thinking that he will instantly win because Pupstruction wouldn't have a castle to show Mayor Gilmore, he forgets to turn off the wave making device, making another wave that threatens to destroy his own castle. Pupstruction builds a splash shield for them, and both teams are declared winners much to the surprise of Bobby.
3	3	"Bailey's Birthday Coaster"	Josh Greer	James Eason-Garcia	June 15, 2023 (2023-06-15)	103	N/A
		"Doggone Tired"	David M. Rodriguez	Daka Hermon
It's Bailey's birthday and Phinny wants to build her a gift. Getting inspired by the fact that Bailey loves riding on his back, Phinny decides to build Bailey a roller coaster. He shows the coaster to her, but seeing Bailey dissatisfied, he tries to improve it, but Bailey's satisfaction does not change. After a while, Phinny makes the roller coaster in such a way that Bailey is too young to ride it. After Bailey takes another ride on Phinny's back, he realizes that all she wanted was to ride on his back. Pupstruction then moves their roller coaster to the pier of Petsburg. While Pupstruction is having dinner with Harry, Sofia Boneitelli, the most famous chef in Petsburg, visits Pup HQ, and tells Pupstruction that she accidentally invited everyone to the grand opening of her new restaurant, Bone Appetito, even though it hasn't been built yet. Boneitelli lets Tank hold onto her recipe book, which Tank stays up all night reading so he can decide what he wants to order from the restaurant. Since he didn't get any sleep, he is really tired, and because he doesn't think that it's a big problem, this leads him to cause problems for the Pupstruction crew. Tank eventually ends up ruining the recipe book by dropping it into wet cement. Luckily, he remembers the recipes in the book really well, and he is able to help save the restaurant.
4	4	"Fast and Furriest"	Josh Greer	Niki Lytton	June 16, 2023 (2023-06-16)	104	N/A
		"Luna Digs Deep"	David M. Rodriguez	Nick "Rocket" Rodriguez
After fixing up their truck, Pupstruction decides to take it for a test drive, during which they come across Lickety-Split who built a faulty treadmill for Rusty Whiskers, an exercise-loving hamster. When the treadmill breaks, he ends up trapped in a runaway hamster ball, which Pupstruction repeatedly tries and fails to catch. Eventually, they decide to turn the hamster wheel into a car instead. Luna loves digging so much that she ends up digging during construction jobs where it's not necessary. She eventually loses all confidence in digging just when Mayor Gilmore calls the crew, complaining about a boulder on some train tracks, which obliges Pupstruction to build a tunnel under it.
5	5	"Bailey and the Doggy Doctor"	Josh Greer	James Eason-Garcia	June 23, 2023 (2023-06-23)	105	N/A
		"Dog for a Day"	David M. Rodriguez	Niki Lytton
While Pupstruction is building the office for Dr. Barkley, Bailey is pretending to do construction until she gets a splinter from one of her wooden blocks. However, she is scared of having the splinter being taken out, so she tries to prevent Pupstruction from building Dr. Barkley's office, but Pupstruction decides to lessen Bailey's fears by adding a slide and ball pit to the roof of the doctor's office. Soon, Dr. Barkley eases Bailey by singing a song about how her doctor's tools are as important as Pupstruction's tools. Bobby is still jealous of Pupstruction's success. When Pupstruction gets a request from Mayor Gilmore to build a water park, Bobby decides to pretend to be a dog named Doggo and sneak into their headquarters so he could steal their plans and build the water park instead. He does things like make Pupstruction play fetch and secretly jammed the mechanism that enables them to launch their trucks. After Bobby makes off with the plans, he instructs Scratch and Sniff to build it. By the time Pupstruction unjams the mechanism, they arrive to find that Scratch and Sniff botched the construction. After being busted, Bobby apologizes for his actions and Pupstruction finishes the water park the right way.
6	6	"Adventures in Bulldozing"	David M. Rodriguez	James Eason-Garcia	June 30, 2023 (2023-06-30)	106	N/A
		"Safe and Hound"	Josh Greer	Denisse De La Cruz
Harry and Maya are going out to dinner by themselves, leaving Pupstruction to babysit Bailey. Roxy, wondering if babies like to smash things, decides to teach Bailey how fun demolition is; however, this soon blows up in her face as Bailey begins smashing everything and eventually goes into town to go on a smashing spree. This eventually leads to a part of the wall of the toy store breaking. Roxy soon fixes this problem by teaching Bailey that building after destroying is fun, and the crew turn the smashed part of the wall into a window display. Phinny hurts his paw when he accidentally drops Roxy's hammer on it, leading Harry to become concerned. While the Pupstruction crew is building a condo for a family of rabbits, Harry becomes Pupstruction's "safety inspector" and goes overboard on helping the pups be safer, doing things like replacing Luna's shovels with mixing spoons, making Roxy wear oven mitts to protect her hands, and making Tank use icing instead of cement. Eventually, this leads to the condo collapsing. When Maya arrives to survey the damage, she helps Harry realize that he might have gotten carried away with helping his son, and in turn, the crew, be safe, but Maya soon sings a song reminding Harry what being a crew is for.
7	7	"Home Stinky Home"	David M. Rodriguez	Becky Friedman	July 7, 2023 (2023-07-07)	107	N/A
		"Dump Truck Dilemma"	Josh Greer	Roxy Simons
Tank's leftover and neglected kibble casserole has stunk up Pupstruction HQ causing Maya to call in the Squeaky Clean Crew to deal with it. As the stench is too much for the Squeaky Clean Crew, Pupstruction has no other choice but to tear it down and rebuild it. Maya provides Phinny with the original blueprints so that Pupstruction can make use of it. While working on a buildboard sign, Bobby, Scratch, and Sniff witness Pupstruction rebuilding the HQ as Bobby makes plans to sabotage their build by briefly swiping the blueprints and making his own alterations. Grandma Dee has come to town to see Maya and the rest of her family. She has brought with her a dump truck that has helped her in building most of Petsburg. Grandma Dee allows Pupstruction to play in her dump truck which she plans on using for a special project later. While in Grandma Dee's dump truck, a mirror accidentally comes off as Phinny and Tank try to use their tools to fix it. It doesn't go well as their tools fail to fix other things that fall off of the dump truck. Phinny and Tank enlist Roxy and Luna in keeping Grandma Dee busy while they work to fix the dump truck.
8	8	"Builders to Bakers"	Josh Greer	Niki Lytton	July 14, 2023 (2023-07-14)	108	N/A
		"Fire Truck Frenzy"	David M. Rodriguez	Story by : Jenava Mie Teleplay by : Travis Braun
9	9	"Robo Cat"	David M. Rodriguez	Jenava Mie	July 21, 2023 (2023-07-21)	109	N/A
		"Underwater Pups"	Josh Greer	Todd Garfield
10	10	"The Wishbone Comet"	Josh Greer	Story by : James Eason-Garcia Teleplay by : David Radcliff	July 28, 2023 (2023-07-28)	111	N/A
		"The Never-Ending Treehouse"	David M. Rodriguez	Niki Lytton
11	11	"Professor Frazzle"	Josh Greer	James Eason-Garcia	August 4, 2023 (2023-08-04)	112	N/A
		"A Crabby Neighbor"	David M. Rodriguez	Becky Friedman
12	12	"Luna's Bad Hair Day"	Josh Greer	Denisse De La Cruz	August 18, 2023 (2023-08-18)	114	N/A
		"Happy Maya's Day"	David M. Rodriguez	Sam Bissonnette
13	13	"Amusement Park-ing"	Josh Greer	Niki Lytton	September 22, 2023 (2023-09-22)	115	N/A
		"Dino-Dog Dig"	David M. Rodriguez	James Eason-Garcia
14	14	"Happy Howl-oween"	Josh Greer	Story by : Nick "Rocket" Rodriguez Teleplay by : Scott Gray	September 27, 2023 (2023-09-27)	110	N/A
		"The House of Howls"	David M. Rodriguez	Brandon Violette
15	15	"The Mayor Mover"	Josh Greer	Scott Gray	October 13, 2023 (2023-10-13)	116	N/A
		"Bobby's Balloon Blunder"	David M. Rodriguez	Story by : Niki Lytton Teleplay by : Ellie Guzman
16	16	"Itty Bitty Barn Build"	Josh Greer	Niki Lytton	November 3, 2023 (2023-11-03)	117	N/A
		"A Colorful Job"	David M. Rodriguez	James Eason-Garcia
Note: On North American cable systems, "Itty" in "Itty Bitty Barn Build" is misspelled with an "S" instead of a "Y" as "Itts".
17	17	"Pupstruction Saves Christmas"	David M. Rodriguez	James-Eason-Garcia	November 27, 2023 (2023-11-27)	119	N/A
		"Pups On Ice"	Josh Greer	Niki Lytton
18	18	"The Sunniest Snow Day"	David M. Rodriguez	James Eason-Garcia	December 8, 2023 (2023-12-08)	113	N/A
		"When Pups Fly"	Josh Greer	Niki Lytton
During a hot day, Maya goes through different stuff. Inspired by a snow globe, Bailey wants to play in the snow. Because it's not the right season for it, Phinny leads the rest of Pupstruction to come up with a way so that Bailey can enjoy the snow. A bunch of bird traffic has caused Petsburg's bird community to keep bumping into each other. Mayor Gillmore enlists Pupstruction to build a special tower that can help direct traffic with Lloyd's brother Floyd becoming an air traffic controller. Bobby watches from nearby to see if Pupstruction will fail in building a tower to handle the air traffic.
19	19	"Valentine's Day Dogs"	David M. Rodriguez	Denisse De La Cruz	January 12, 2024 (2024-01-12)	122	N/A
		"The Petsburg Power-Out"	Josh Greer	James-Eason-Garcia
20	20	"Pizza-struction"	Josh Greer	Scott Gray	February 2, 2024 (2024-02-02)	118	N/A
		"Baby Builders"	David M. Rodriguez	Denisse De La Cruz
21	21	"A Bright Idea"	Josh Greer	Roni Brown-Byrd	March 1, 2024 (2024-03-01)	120	N/A
		"The Friendliest Frog"	David M. Rodriguez	Denisse De La Cruz
While jogging, Mayor Gilmore and Lloyd find Captain Seadog in the middle of unsticking his boat from the rocks after crashing it in the dark. This causes Mayor Gilmore to call in Pupstruction to build a lighthouse so that Captain Seadog and other boaters can get out of the lake in the dark easily. As Pupstruction completes the lighthouse, they enlist Professor Frazzle to build a large lightbulb for the lighthouse which they had to maneuver safely around traffic, children playing baseball, and a wrecking ball during one of Lickety Split's gigs. Even when the lightbulb is put in, they still have to get more power to it by sunset. While on a walk, Mayor Gilmore and Lloyd find Petsburg's most friendliest citizen Felipe planning to move back to the rainforest as he can't handle the climate. To keep Felipe from moving away, Mayor Gilmore calls in Pupstruction to resolve this. They start with a pool to help cool him down. Then they put in some tropical plans to help with the shade. Then Pupstruction sets up a sprinkler which they had to turn off since the water has nearly flooded Mr. and Mrs. Wagner's yard. Now they must find a way to make Felipe's property to be more habitable to keep him from moving away.
22	22	"Pup Princess"	Josh Greer	Niki Lytton	April 5, 2024 (2024-04-05)	121	N/A
		"Trash Truck Pups"	David M. Rodriguez	Roxana Altamirano
23	23	"Pirate Party"	Josh Greer	Niki Lytton	May 3, 2024 (2024-05-03)	123	N/A
		"A Playful Playground"	David M. Rodriguez	Todd Garfield
24	24	"Mayor Boots"	Josh Greer	Niki Lytton	May 31, 2024 (2024-05-31)	124	N/A
		"Good Clean Race"	David M. Rodriguez	Nick Lopez
25	25	"The Petsburg Music Festival"	Josh Greer & David M. Rodriguez	Travis Braun	July 17, 2024 (2024-07-17)	125	N/A

Season 2 (2024)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Storyboard directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	U.S. viewers (millions)
26	1	"Saving Air Fish One"	Josh Greer	Niki Lytton	October 14, 2024 (2024-10-14)	TBA	TBD
		"Every Bunny on the Bus"	David M. Rodriguez	Travis Braun
27	2	"The Petsburg Car Show"	Josh Greer	Nick Lopez	October 14, 2024 (2024-10-14)	TBA	TBD
		"Pupstruction Camps Out"	David M. Rodriguez
28	3	"Cheesestruction"	Josh Greer	Nikki Lytton	October 15, 2024 (2024-10-15) (This episode was first released on Disney+ on October 14, 2024.)	TBA	TBD
		"The Boat That Won't Budge"	David M. Rodriguez	Denisse De La Cruz
29	4	"Astro-Pups"	Josh Greer	Nick Lopez	October 16, 2024 (2024-10-16) (This episode was first released on Disney+ on October 14, 2024.)	TBA	TBD
		"Twin Homes"	David M. Rodriguez	Roni Brown-Byrd
30	5	"The Funniest Pup In Petsburg"	David M. Rodriguez	Becky Friedman	October 17, 2024 (2024-10-17) (This episode was first released on Disney+ on October 14, 2024.)	TBA	TBD
		"Beddy-Bye Build"	Josh Greer	Niki Lytton
31	6	"The Petsburg Express"	Josh Greer	Nick Lopez	October 25, 2024 (2024-10-25) (This episode was first released on Disney+ on October 14, 2024.)	TBA	TBD
		"The Purrfect Hotel"	David M. Rodriguez	Roxana Altamirano
32	7	"Petsgiving at PawPaw's"	Josh Greer	Niki Lytton	November 1, 2024 (2024-11-01) (This episode was first released on Disney+ on October 14, 2024.)	215	TBD
		"Chilly Dogs"	David M. Rodriguez	Denisse De La Cruz
33	8	"Murphy's Paw"	Josh Greer	Niki Lytton	November 8, 2024 (2024-11-08) (This episode was first released on Disney+ on October 14, 2024.)	TBA	TBD
		"Pupstruction Saves the Dam"	David M. Rodriguez	Denisse De La Cruz
34	9	"Coast Guard Pup"	Josh Greer	Nick Lopez	November 15, 2024 (2024-11-15) (This episode was first released on Disney+ on October 14, 2024.)	TBA	TBD
		"The Big Baby Build"	David M. Rodriguez	Jeffrey King
35	10	"A Very Merry Christmas"	Josh Greer	Nick Lopez	December 6, 2024 (2024-12-06) (This episode was first released on Disney+ on October 14, 2024.)	TBA	TBD
		"Mountain Dogs"	David M. Rodriguez	Brandon Violette

Release

Pupstruction premiered on Disney Jr. and Disney Channel on June 14, 2023. It was later released on the Disney+ streaming service. The second season premiered on October 14, 2024 and the next day on Disney+.

Reception

Critical response

The series received positive reviews from critics. Victoria Davis of Animation World Network said, "The show's overall tone is humorous and fun, but the messages Braun and his team hope to relay to kids are very serious, especially considering the show is speaking to a generation where kids have access to almost every toy and electronic mechanism under the sun that could keep them distracted for long periods of time. And yet, kids still want to play with the wrapping paper more than the toy wrapped inside. Pupstruction nurtures that "imaginative play" part of being a kid that could be lost in today's society if we're not careful." Ashley Moulton of Common Sense Media gave Pupstruction a grade of four out of five stars, complimented the depiction of educational value, stating that the show highlights teamwork and perseverance, and praised the presence of positive messages and role models, citing helpfulness, writing, "Pupstruction is a sweet, appealing preschool series that's appropriate for the youngest viewers."

Accolades

Pupstruction was nominated for Preschool Programming – Best New Series at the 2024 Kidscreen Awards.

External links

• Pupstruction at IMDb