Fuzzy Friends (TV series)

**Fuzzy Friends** is an American computer-animated children's series that aired on The Kiddie Channel. 130 episodes were produced.

The show is often noted for having the main characters designed and animated using traditional Flash animation while the recurring characters and backgrounds are made using CGI animation. The series was also inspired from a toy brand of same name.

## Plot

The show features a group of eight animal friends. In each episode, they will go on a fantastical adventure. Their adventures span a variety of different genres and settings. Many episodes involve visiting different parts of the world, traveling back or forward in time, and using magic or superpowers. The characters give themselves different jobs or roles depending on the episode's setting. The stories mostly begin with the characters in their house, introducing themselves and explaining the expedition they are about to embark on. When they finish their adventure, they return back home.

## Extension

*Fuzzy Friends* used to be on The Kiddie Channel, and was produced from 2018 to 2020. The show featured a realistic animation style and various world locations. Many of the show's episodes are now lost or difficult to find elsewhere, as they were not archived before *Fuzzy Friends* was ended.

However, there has been announced a spin-off web series in 2022, entitled *Fuzzy Friends Republished*. Several episodes are uploaded to the official YouTube channel, as well as Kiddie Plus. In this series, the animated animal characters are back, only now in the real world while talking to real people, rather than traveling the world in a magic balloon.

## Trivia

* This is the first Kiddie Channel show to use both 2D and 3D animation at the same time.
* It takes about 9 days, 25 hours and 14 weeks to produce an episode and about 10 are worked on at the same time. The 35-member team developed each episode at Kiddie's animation studios.
	+ On that note, the show had been in concept pre-production for 2 months, 35 hours, and 6 weeks.
	+ And if this sounds like the Fuzzy Friends have Flash animation, they do. Yep, literally! They've got digital manipulation which allows them to touch a variety of the CGI-generated assets.
* For each episode, the (usually yellow) letters are frequently animated as well, normally floating up-and-down before scattering away in all directions, while displaying the name of the episode in a matching, comic-style font, which started with Season 1 and onwards.
	+ In addition, each of the episode titles are often sassy, sarcastic, or ironic.
* The show was renewed for a second season before it even premiered.
* Some of the backgrounds look pretty inferior, as they barely look passable at all. They have Chaister Garrincha and Braddock Schroeder's names placed everywhere, the creators of this show.
* When the Fuzzy Friends wish for something, the creators can make various items and they can appear/disappear with magic. This has become a running gag.
* The soundtrack is above-average, even for the one that plays in the intro.
* A bit of the voice acting is passable from time to time.
* It was sometimes better in its early years, as it was a lot cheaper and the show wasn't so full of generic episodes.
* The concept for the show wasn't too bad, as it could have been a way of teaching children about world locations.