Fuzzy Friends (TV series)

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

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

## Plot

The show featured a group of eight animal friends. In each episode, they would go on a fantastical adventure. Their adventures spanned a variety of different genres and settings. Many episodes involved visiting different parts of the world, traveling back or forward in time, and using magic or superpowers. The characters gave themselves different jobs or roles depending on the episode's setting. The stories mostly began with the characters in their house, introducing themselves and explaining the expedition they were about to embark on. When they finished their adventure, they often returned back home.

## Extension

*Fuzzy Friends* used to be on The Kiddie Channel, and was produced from 2018 to 2020 (with reruns continuing until October 3, 2021). 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

1. This was the first Kiddie Channel show to use both 2D and 3D animation at the same time.
2. It took about 9 days, 25 hours and 14 weeks to produce an episode and about 10 were being 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 had Flash animation, they did. Yes, literally! They had digital manipulation which allowed them to touch a variety of the CGI-generated assets.
3. For each episode, the (usually yellow) letters were 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 were often sassy, sarcastic, or ironic.
4. The show was renewed for a second season before it even premiered.
5. Some of the backgrounds looked pretty inferior, as they barely looked passable at all. They had Chaister Garrincha and Braddock Schroeder's names placed everywhere, the creators of this show.
6. When the Fuzzy Friends wished for something, the creators could make various items and they could appear/disappear with magic. This had become a running gag.
7. The soundtrack was above-average, even for the one that plays in the intro.
8. A bit of the voice acting was passable from time to time.
9. It was sometimes better in its early years, as it was a lot cheaper and the show wasn't so full of generic episodes.
10. The concept for the show wasn't too bad, as it could have been a way of teaching children about world locations.