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Soup (TV series)

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Created by
  
Jamie Canard

No. of episodes
  
30

Original release
  
2002 – 2002

Final episode date
  
2002

Genre
  
Animation

Country of origin
  
New Zealand

Running time
  
3 minutes

First episode date
  
2002

Number of episodes
  
30

Vegetable soup theme


Soup is a children's claymation-style animated television series made in New Zealand which aired on TVNZ in 2002. It was created by Jamie Canard and ran for three series of 10 episodes each within the What Now children's TV programme. Each episode was around five minutes long and portrayed the life of fictional creatures living in a swamp. The style of the series was inspired by The Trap Door, with a variety of creatures ranging from hideous rampaging monsters to small scuttling things, typically with big eyes on top of their heads.

Contents

Cartoon for kids smarta and her magic bag vegetable soup animation like dora the explorer


Characters

  • Roger Lizard, who sometimes provides background information to the story and seems to look after the going-ons in the swamp. He has a book containing an illustrated list of the hideous beasts inhabiting the swamp, which he uses as reference when identifying creatures.
  • Bronwyn and Flip, the main characters.
  • Policeslug Nigel, a police officer in the form of a snail.
  • Roland, a pink creature with a single hand atop one stout leg. The hand which carries its single big eye.
  • A starfish-like creature with a name that sounds like a popping sound.

    • The only regularly appearing talking creatures are Roger, Bronwyn, Flip and Policeslug Nigel. Roland appears in several episodes, but talks in an unintelligible language.

    Creatures

    Talking creatures:

  • Two snails who deliver messages, typically between Roger and Policeslug Nigel.
  • Two Grizzlefish, which prey on almost every other creature in the swamp, except the Bobfiend of which they are afraid.
  • The Bobfiend, who likes to scare the Grizzlefish, but is otherwise quite harmless.

    • The swamp is also inhabited by a variety of non-talking creatures, some of which are named:

  • Frog Monster
  • Giant Jellymonster - afraid of snails, although it does not talk as such, in one episode it sings a somewhat comprehensible lullaby to Roland.
  • Shrieking Crab - uses freaky moss as decoration of its shell
  • Speeding Rocket Beetle
  • Spotted Scaredy Menace
  • Strobe - emits a blinking light when touched

    • Flora

    The following is a list of named plants and fungi in the swamp:

  • Delicipod
  • Exploding Fruit
  • Freaky Moss

    • Original episodes

    Season 1:

  • The Strobes
  • Grizzlefish
  • Traffic Jam
  • Mud Day
  • The Games
  • Song of the Banded Warbler
  • Roland Gets Robbed
  • Murky Depths
  • Legend of the Bogfiend
  • The Flatworms

    • Season 2:

  • To Catch A Newt
  • Fist of Orange
  • Roger's String
  • The Lost Egg
  • Sports Day
  • The Gap
  • Skidplums
  • Return to the Murky Depths
  • Escape from the Murky Depths
  • Freaky Moss

    • Season 3:

  • Queen of the Hill
  • A Daring Plan
  • One Smart Frog
  • Bronwyn's Potion
  • Nature Ramble
  • Slimey Justice
  • Mudmonster vs Behemoth
  • The Other Five Senses
  • Spelunkers
  • The Wide Piper

    • Season 1's ten episodes were available for sale for a short time on a single VHS video through Whitcoulls in New Zealand.

    References

    Soup (TV series) Wikipedia
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