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Directed by Philippe Amador No. of seasons 2 First episode date 2000 | 7.6/10 IMDb Country of origin Germany No. of episodes 52 Number of seasons 2 Number of episodes 52 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Executive producer(s) Jacqueline TordjmanJacques PettigrewRalf Fronz Similar Mad Jack the Pirate, Eek! The Cat, Life with Louie, What's with Andy?, The Kids from Room 402 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wunschpunsch (or Wounchpounch) is an animated series for children, inspired by the novel The Night of Wishes by Michael Ende.
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Plot
In every episode, a wizard named Bubonic and his aunt, a witch named Tyrannia, must wreak havoc on the city in which they live or suffer a severe punishment from their supervisor, Maledictus T. Maggot. To be able to do so, they use an ancient magical parchment that, once utilized to activate a spell, said spell must be reversed within the next seven hours; otherwise, its effects will become permanent. To make sure the spells are reversed, Bubonic's and Tyrannia's pets, Mauricio the cat and Jacob the crow, must seek out Aunt Noah, an old turtle at the local zoo and head of the Animal Council, for a riddle on how to reverse the spell, which they usually manage to do in the nick of time. One of the episodes, Night of Wishes, is particularly inspired by the book. In that episode, the animals foil the spell by dropping a bell sound into the potion cauldron and Maledictus Maggot punishes Bubonic and Tyrannia for the foiled spell by attaching their homes, forcing them to live together. Unlike the other known punishments that never last enough to be seen in later episodes, this one seems to be permanent and has lasted at least five years (the animals recall it has been five years since it happened). Bubonic and Tyrannia are so clumsy that some of their spells bring trouble to themselves, and when the spells are undone, they feel a temporary relief that quickly ends when Maggot shows up to punish them for their failure.
Characters
Episodes
Titles of English episodes
Season 1
Tyrannia and Bubonic make the plants grow and turn evil.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make any mirror create a double of a person who looks at it.
Tyrannia and Bubonic ruin Christmas by making the toys received by the children alive and evil.
Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone into children.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone lose their colors.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make paintings alive.
Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone into cavemen.
Tyrannia and Bubonic enlarge everyone's feet.
Tyrannia and Bubonic turn the city back to the Middle Ages. Bubonic sabotages the spell in order to make himself a king and turn Tyrannia into his slave.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make electrical appliances come to life and do what they want.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make insects become big.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make anyone's wish come true, but the wish turns against the person.
Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone into animals.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make fairy tale characters come to life.
Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone into cars.
Tyrannia and Bubonic turn pets into wild animals.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make the weather change constantly.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone's things get lost.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make garbage double and return to the place of the person who threw it away.
Tyrannia and Bubonic turn the city into a desert.
Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone into themselves (men are turned into Bubonic and women are turned into Tyrannia).
Tyrannia and Bubonic turn the city into a ghost town, causing spirits to roam around freely. Whenever a ghost successfully scares someone, it multiplies into two.
Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone into pranksters.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone's hair grow everywhere on their body except the head.
Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone's heads into plants.
This episode is based on the books. This episode recalls how Maurizio and Jacob first met, and Tyrannia and Bubonic's first spell which poisoned the city.
Season 2
Maggot takes Mauricio and Jacob away from Tyrannia and Bubonic to his house. Mauricio and Jacob seem to have a great time with Mrs. Maggot. Meanwhile, to have pets around, Tyrannia and Bubonic separate other pets from their owners.
Bubonic meets a mysterious wizard who gives him great powers. Bubonic uses his new advanced powers to turn the city upside down.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone very slow. Only those who are awake when the spell was cast don't get affected by it.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone very depressed.
In order to not have an amusement park in their yard, Tyrannia decides to switch Bubonic's body with Mayor Plaga's. It works, but everything goes out of control when Bubonic and the Mayor decide to stay in each other's bodies and Mauricio and Jacob have switched bodies too.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone useless in anything useful.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone's shoes dance without stopping.
Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone into shadows whenever they are exposed to sunlight.
Tyrannia and Bubonic plan to dispel Maggot's evil attitude and turn it into a nice one. Mauricio and Jacob decide to sabotage the spell to also affect their owners. It works, but Tyrannia and Bubonic's goodness goes out of control when they get everyone into trouble while helping.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make Maggot control everyone in the city.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone very self-centred and not pay attention to children.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make queues endless.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make money multiply.
Tyrannia and Bubonic ruin Valentine's Day by making everyone's lover turn against that person after reading a Valentine card.
Bubonic reluctantly agrees to help Tyrannia become irresistible to the men in the city.
Tyrannia and Bubonic, along with Mauricio and Jacob, go back in time - to the middle ages - to prevent Maggot's parents from meeting to prevent him from being born and getting involved in their life. However, they forgot to create a way back to the 21st century, causing them to be stuck in the past.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make walls permeable, which ruins everyone's privacy.
Tyrannia and Bubonic glue people who are arguing together. Maurizio and Jacob are arguing about which of their owners is better and are glued to each other too.
Tyrannia and Bubonic turn the city into game shows.
When Tyrannia comes down with a bad cold, she and Bubonic make everyone (including most of the animals, but excluding Mauricio and Jacob) sneeze constantly, as if they caught her cold.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone shrink if they contact water.
Tyrannia and Bubonic bring every snowman to life.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make everyone lie and their noses grow long when they do so.
Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone's dreams into nightmares, which later become real during the day.
Tyrannia and Bubonic turn everyone into dogs.
Tyrannia and Bubonic make the city's men and women turn against each other.