Pinky Dinky Doo

Pinky Dinky Doo
Created by	Jim Jinkins
Starring	India Ennenga, Allison Wachtfogel, Justin Riordan, Heather Dilly
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	30 Minutes
Original release
Network	Noggin Univision (Spanish dub)
Release	April, 2006 – Present

Pinky Dinky Doo is a children's animated series that currently airs on Noggin and dubbed in Spanish on Univision in the USA, ABC in Australia, CBeebies in Great Britain and CBC in Canada.

Pinky is a seven-year-old girl who lives in Great Big City with her parents, her four-year-old brother, Tyler, and their pet, Mr. Guinea Pig. When a problem arises, Pinky dances her way to a cardboard Story Box and uses a piece of chalk and her imagination to tell a story. During the made-up story, Pinky must Think Big, at which point her head swells and she comes up with an often wacky solution to the problem.

This show helps viewers increase their vocabularies with its Great Big Fancy Word, which is featured several times during the episode. It also addresses problem-solving skills as well as the basics of narrative stories -- character, dialogue, plot, details, main idea and sequence of events. After Pinky tells her story and solves the problem of the day, kids are invited to play an interactive game on the Cheese Sandwich toy, where they review details about the story. At the end of each episode, kids are encouraged to make up their own stories.

This series was created by Jim Jinkins, who originally made up Pinky's adventures as bed-time tales for his children. The Executive Producers are Jinkins and David Campbell. It is a production of Sesame Workshop and Cartoon Pizza. According to Noggin, Pinky Dinky Doo is the network’s first original series dedicated to enhancing early literacy.

The original American version was initially shown on CBeebies in the UK, but more recently the show has been redubbed and broadcast with British English accents. There is also a Spanish version on Univision.

Characters

It has three main characters: Pinky (India Ennenga), Tyler (Allison Wachtfogel), and Mr. Guinea Pig. It also has the characters of Pinky's mother and father, and a quartet of school characters: Nicholas Biscuit (Katherine Rose Riley), Bobby Boom, Daphne Toilette, and Miss McGanza.

Episodes

Season 1 - Flash Animation

#	Title	Great Big Fancy Word	Summary
1	Where Are My Shoes?	exasperated	When Pinky can't find her shoes, she goes to school with salami on her feet.
2	Pinky Dinky Doo and the Outer Space Fluffy Buns	predicament	Pinky puts too much baking powder in her fluffy buns and they lift her apartment up into outer space!
3	Tyler's Great Big Solo	magnificent	When a famous tenor loses his voice, Tyler fills in at the opera.
4	Polka Dot Pox	frustrated	Pinky misses show-and-tell day at school when she comes down with a case of the polka-dot pox.
5	Pinky and the Grumpy Alligator	grumpy
6	The Horn and Antler Club	ridiculous	Pinky attends a birthday party at a stuffy club where no laughing is allowed!
7	Tyler Dinky Doo and the Pirate Crew
8	Pinky Dinky Doo and the Missing Dinosaurs	investigate
9	Pinky Dinky Doo and the Pizza Artist
10	Pinky Dinky Doo and the Party Animals	celebration
11	Tyler's Tall O'Meter	gargantuan
12	Pinky Dinky Doo and the Cloud People	comotion
13	Tyler Dinky Doo's Big Boo	terrifying
14	Pinky and the New Teacher	hubub
15	Tyler Dinky Doo to the Rescue	flabergastic
16	Shrinky Pinky	shrink
17	Tyler's Too Cool Game	engrossed
18	Come Home, Little Guinea Pig
19	Pinky and the Super Spaghetti Knot
20	Back to School is Cool	apprehensive	It's school picture day and Pinky and all of her classmates have bad hair.
21	Tyler Dinky Doo's Sporting News	enthusiastic
22	Dragon Needs a Sippy Cup
23	Tyler Dinky Doo and the Legend of Twigfoot	hideous
24	Pinky and the Big Rainy Day	cacophony
25	Pinky's Awful Good Day	unflaple
26	Tyler's Neat-o Tuxedo	daper
27	Pinky's Wintery Dintery Doo	bizzar	Pinky must get to the bottom of things when it snows in the middle of summer!
28	Pinky's Great Big Concert	experiment	When Pinky leaves her instrument at home, she plays Daffinee's hair in the school concert.
29	The Great Big Cheese Chase
30	Try It, You'll Like It…Pretty Much	scrumptious
31	Pinky Dinky Duplicate	duplicate
32	I Want That	acumilate
33	Boom! Sonic Boom!
34	Pinky the Pet	habitat
35	Guppy Training Day	gigantic
36	Pinky and the Babysitter	skeptiacle
37	Tyler's Lucky Sock	decipher
38	Tyler's Best Sleepover Ever	agenda
39	Pinky's Big Talent	talent
40	Pinky Dinky Re-Doo	vanished
41	Tyler's Super Family	xylophone
42	Pinky and the Ice Cream Babies	professional
43	Mr. Guinea Pig and the Big Bone	assemble
44	Mr. Guinea Pig, Superstar	ukulele
45	Pinky and the Pink Phenomenon	phenomenon
46	Two Wheel Dreams	impetuous
47	Go to Bed, Tyler!
48	Mr. Guinea Pig's Loose Tooth	labyrinth
49	Think Pink
50	Tyler's First Flight	skidish
51	Pinky and the Castle of Cards
52	Daddy's Special Shirt	tenaicious

Season 2 - 3D Animation

#	Title
53	Vicki Chicken	flustered	Pinky and her friends help Vicki Chicken learn to handle problems one step at a time.
54	The Mystery Planet	assume	Captain Doo and her crew assume a lot of things about a new planet -- until they visit Planet Puppy and find out the facts.
55	Tooting Trunk	distruptive	The Dinky Doos help an elephant remember his favorite song, and teach him not to be disruptive.
56	Kooky Cook-Off	collaborate	Pinky and her friends learn to collaborate when they enter a cooking contest in outer space.
57	The Pinkys Rock!
58	Puppy Go Seek	panic
59	Tyler's Storybox Disaster
60	The Great Biscotti	expert
61	Stinky Pinky Doo	mortofied	At school, Pinky walked around with bad breath.
62	Big Blob of Talk	hulabaloo
63	Burpzilla	concentrate
64	Happy Burp Day	unique
65	In the Dark	reluctant
66	Pop The Corn	suspense
67	Pinky Squeaks
68	Are You My Mummy?	reunited

Games

At the end of each 15 minute story, Pinky plays an educational type of game. Some of the games include the following:

What Came First? Pinky replays certain portions of the story and then asks viewing children to remember which part came first in the story.

Eat It Or Wear It: Pinky shows objects and asks kids if they would eat it or wear it.

Great Big Fancy Word Game: Pinky helps kids recall the meaning of the fancy word that has been repeated in the story.

Who Is This: A slice of Swiss cheese appears on the screen and holes pop out of it revealing a character from the story. Kids must try to guess what character is hiding behind the slice of cheese.

Where Is Pinky?: A slice of Swiss cheese appears on the screen and holes pop out of it revealing a location.

What Is That Sound? Pinky asks kids to identify the source of a sound.

What's the Name of My Story? Pinky gives us titles for stories, and the viewers think of the best title of the story.

Which is the Right Pinky (in "Great Big Cheese Chase," Which is the Right Monster(in "Tyler Dinky Doo's Big Boo!", Which is the right Tyler?) There are four Pinky's (monsters or Tyler's) shown and the viewers guess which one was the Pinky (monster or Tyler) we saw in the story.

Who Said This

Prime Time Specials

Pinky Dinky Doo 20th Golden Anniversary

Pinky Dinky Doo is an eight-year-old girl who lives in Great Big City with her parents, her five-year-old little brother, Tyler, and their pet, Mr. Guinea Pig. When a problem arises, Pinky dances her way to a cardboard Story Box and uses a piece of chalk and her imagination to tell a story. During the made-up story, a four year old Pinky must Think Big, at which point her head swells and she comes up with an often wacky solution to the problem.

This show helps viewers increase their vocabularies with its Great Big Fancy Word, which is featured several times during the episode. It also addresses problem-solving skills as well as the basics of narrative stories -- character, dialogue, plot, details, main idea and sequence of events. After Pinky tells her story and solves the problem of the day, kids won't be invited to play an interactive game on the Cheese Sandwich toy; where they review details about the story, because Pinky and Tyler would be able to be together. At the end of each episode, kids are encouraged to make up their own stories.

This series was created by Jim Jinkins, who originally made up Pinky's adventures as bed-time tales for his children. The Executive Producers are Jinkins and David Campbell. It is a production of Sesame Workshop and Cartoon Pizza. According to Noggin, Pinky Dinky Doo is the network’s first original series dedicated to enhancing early literacy.

The original American version was initially shown on CBeebies in the UK, but more recently the show has been redubbed and broadcast with British English accents. There is also a Spanish version on Univision. This show is rating TVY7.

External links

• Official Sesame Workshop Site
• Official Noggin Site
• Official BBC Site
• IMDB Site
• Pinky Dinky Doo Review