Moshi Monsters Egg Hunt (animated series)

Moshi Monsters Egg Hunt is a 2017 British animated series directed by Wip Vernooij and co-directed by Morgan Francis. It is based off the virtual world of Moshi Monsters and based off the mobile game of the same name. The series features the voices of Emma Tate, Tom Clarke Hill, Phillipa Alexander and Keith Wickham. The series premiered on CITV in the UK and Ireland on April 16, 2017, which is Easter Sunday in the UK.
The series premiered in North America on Universal Kids on April 21, 2019, and is available on the Peacock streaming service.
== Premise ==
The series continues from where Moshi Monsters: The Movie left off, with Buster Bumblechops discorvering many more Moshling eggs. Buster alerts the six main monsters (Katsuma, Poppet, Furi, Luvli, Diavlo and Zommer) about it and Katsuma tells Buster and the other Moshis that they'll set up an ''egg hunt'' (The main premise of the show) and find all of the newly-discovered Moshling eggs.
In each episode, the six main monsters get a choice of Moshlings that they'll be pairing with in that episode. Katsuma and Poppet have already got Moshlings assigned to them (Mr. Snoodle (Poppet) and Mrs. Snoodle (Katsuma) respectively). During that episode, the monsters and the Moshlings that they're paired to will have to search for Moshling eggs all throughout the Moshi world. After each egg is hatched, Buster will announce who the Moshling is and Poppet/Katsuma will then tell one fact about that Moshling.
In the Moshling Sanctuary segment, Poppet discovers that this episode's egg is not there, commencing the find the egg segment, where the viewer needs to spot where the egg is in that episode's picture of the day. Once the viewers finds the egg, Katsuma tells the viewer that the egg would hatch later on in the episode, commencing the other segments of that episode.
==== House Segment ====
In the six monsters' home, the Moshis have to take care of the Moshlings they've collected. They can decorate the house with items that they've bought from the market (see Shopping section), they can give food to the Moshlings or they can use potions on the Moshlings for very funny moments, like having a disco with a Moshling.
==== Shopping Segment ====
During each episode, the monsters head out to the market to buy stuff for their home, such as furniture, food and potions. After they collected all the items they needed, one of the monsters say that they need some more Moshi power, or, very rarely, Strangeglove calls the Moshis and sends them a Glumping threat, commencing the games section.
==== Games Segment ====
The monsters head out to a game show to get the Moshling egg, beating a specific game, like: Tic-Tac-Toe, Quiz game, etc.
==== Puzzle Palace Segment ====
During each episode, Katsuma head out to the Puzzle Palace where there are Ultra-rare Moshling eggs. In this segment, Katsuma needs the help of the TV viewers to solve the puzzles, like: Math, Differences, Colours, etc.
==== Musical Segment ====
The musical segment comes in near the end of the episode. In this segment, the six main monsters head to the theater to have a “Moshi dance party”, as described by Katsuma. Katsuma/Poppet would then tell the viewers to get up and dance and a song (either from the music videos, the Music Rox! album, the movie soundtrack or an original song designed for the series) would begin, commencing the the musical segment.
==== Super Moshling Segment ====
When the six monsters collect all the Moshlings from a set they've already had, a Super Moshling egg would appear, which amazes the monsters, but Poppet realises that they need to clean the egg first, with the monsters heading to the Bumbletron. After the egg is cleaned, the main monsters need a golden spoon which is collected from the shopping segment on a very rare occasion (or in the first episode featuring a Super Moshling's case, borrowing Buster's last golden spoon from Furbert Snufflepeeps). The six main monsters hatch the Super Moshling egg and Buster/Katsuma and Poppet/everyone announces who the Super Moshling is, before putting the Moshling in their Moshling Zoo.
==== Hatching Segment ====
After putting the Moshling in their Zoo, the six main monsters hatch other Moshling eggs which they found them in the way, Katsuma explains every of those eggs and later puts the Moshlings in their Zoo.
==== Outro ====
After the musical segment is finished, Katsuma/Poppet recaps that episode featuring clips from the episode itself. Katsuma then asks the viewer if they'd love to go on an egg hunt next time, before the main characters wave goodbye to the audience, finishing the episode.
== Production ==
Moshi Monsters Egg Hunt was first announced by Mind Candy at Brand Licensing Europe 2016 with only the logo being revealed. In the September 2016 issue of License Global, after confirming that a trailer of Egg Hunt was to be shown off on CITV in February 2017, Moshi Monsters: The Movie's animation studio, Spider Eye Productions, confirmed the release date of Egg Hunt to be Easter 2017. A pamphlet included with the December issue of CITV Magazine revealed the runtime and episode count of the first season, along with the main visual, the official episode titles and the official air date.
On January 10, 2017, Emma Tate of Horrid Henry fame announced that she will be reprising the roles of Katsuma and Luvli for the series. A month later, this time on February 12, the first trailer for Egg Hunt aired after an episode of Horrid Henry, showcasing some clips from the first episode.
== Characters ==
=== Moshi Monsters ===
The Moshi Monsters are the main group of protagonists in the series, they comprise of six different monsters with each having their own special theme.
==== Katsuma ====
Played by: Emma Tate
Katsuma is the main protagonist of the series, who is looking for new ''gooperstardom'' in the world where the series takes place. Katsuma represents Asian culture, as he is usually seen performing his signature ''hi-yaa hurricane''. His Moshling partner is Mrs. Snoodle, a female version of Poppet's Moshling partner who hatched out of the Great Moshling Egg in Moshi Monsters: The Movie.
He has an interest to hatch all of the ultra-rare Moshling eggs, as he seems to hug them in some episodes.
He can perform two moves, his ''hi-yaa hurricane'', which was mentioned earlier, and a powered-up version of the move that was mentioned earlier, which is exclusive to this series.
==== Poppet ====
Played by: Phillipa Alexander
Poppet is the main deuteragonist of the series, who has a strong interest for Moshlings, as she loves them so much. She seems to be the same Poppet that was seen in the I Heart Moshlings music video that was released in April 2012, as her personality matches that of her music video counterpart. She is close friends with Katsuma and Mr. Snoodle, who is Poppet's Moshling partner.
Poppet can perform two signature moves, one being her ''super-cute cartwheel'', which she can use to take down enemies that stand in her way, and another move called a ''bashful fur dash'', which is different from her other move.
==== Furi ====
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==== Luvli ====
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==== Diavlo ====
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==== Zommer ====
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==== Mr. Snoodle ====
Played by: ???
Mr. Snoodle is Poppet’s Moshling partner. He is always curious and always lends Poppet a hand when her and the other monsters are in trouble.
Although he looks like an elephant, he is in the Ponies, much to Snoodle’s surprise.
In one of his episodes, Snoodle gets a rare disease called “moshicoughagis”, but is cured thanks to Dr. Strangeglove’s supposedly “poisonous” potion, which has an effect on certain Moshlings.
Unlike the other characters, Snoodle can perform three different moves, once of which is called the “Snoodle doodle”, the others are his “silly Snoodle stomp” and his “sleepy shuffle shuffle”. Snoodle can also perform a move not seen in other media called the “Moshling kick”, whenever he and the other monsters are in trouble.
==== Mrs. Snoodle ====
Played by: ???
Mrs. Snoodle is Katsuma’s Moshling partner. She is close friends with Mr. Snoodle and is always kind to Mr. Snoodle and Katsuma.
She first appeared in Moshi Monsters: The Movie, when she was hatched out of the Great Moshling Egg, which was once stolen by Dr. Strangeglove.
Despite Snoodle being in the Ponies, she is actually in the Legends, referring to the Great Moshling Egg’s status as “legendary”.
Mrs. Snoodle appears when the monsters are in trouble and is always lending Katsuma a hand during battles with CLONC.
She has three different moves alongside Mr. Snoodle. One of which being called the “Franzipan fling”, while the other is called the “rainbow make-blow”. Together with Mr. Snoodle, she can perform a powered-up version of the “Moshling kick”, which is first seen in Season 2.
=== Friendlies ===
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=== CLONC ===
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=== Other Characters ===
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== Episodes ==
=== Season 1 (2017-2018) ===
# Welcome to Moshling Land!
# I heart Moshlings.
# Zoomer's problem.
#The Golden Moshling egg.
#A new Moshling, CLONC.
#Learning the numbers.
#Super Hero Types.
#Mrs. Snoodles Birthday
#The Moshling Circus
#The spotlight for Luvli.
#New... Gooperstardom?
#Where is Diavlo?
=== Season 2 (2018-2019) ===
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=== Season 3 (2019-) ===
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== International Dubs and Broadcasts ==
* Albanian - Bang Bang
* Arabic - Nick Jr and Dreamworks Channel
* Cantonese - HBO Asia
* Chinese - CCTV-14, Tencent Video and Youku
* Czech - HBO Europe and Cartoonito
* Danish - Netflix
* Filipino - Yey! 
* Finnish - Dreamworks Channel and Nelonen
* French - Télétoon+ and Gulli
* German - ZDF and Cartoonito 
* Greek - Nick 
* Indonesian - Netflix
* Italian - Rai Gulp and Rai 2
* Japanese - HBO Asia, Hulu and Nickelodeon
* Malay - RTM TV2 and TV3
* Persian- IRIB Pooya & Nahal
* Polish - teleTOON+, HBO GO, and Amazon Prime
* Portugese - Canal Panda and RTP2
* Romanian - Cartoonito
* Russian - Carousel
* Scottish Gaelic - Netflix
* Spanish - Boing
* Swedish - HBO Europe and SVT Barn
* Thai - Dreamworks Channel
* Turkish - Netflix
* Ukranian - PLUSPLUS
* Welsh - Cyw
== Trivia ==
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