Pinky Dinky Doo facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Pinky Dinky Doo |
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| Genre | Cartoon series |
| Created by | Jim Jinkins |
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| Starring | India Ennenga Allison Wachtfogel Justin Riordan Heather Dilly Jim Jinkins Felix Chrome |
| Opening theme | "Pinky Dinky Doo Theme Song" |
| Ending theme | "We're Going to the Story Box" (Instrumental) |
| Composer(s) | Dan Sawyer |
| Country of origin | United States Canada Latin America |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 52 (104 segments) (list of episodes) |
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| Producer(s) | Melanie Grisanti Mark York |
| Running time | 26 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Sesame Workshop Cartoon Pizza Abrams Gentile Entertainment (season 2) Keyframe Digital Productions (season 2) |
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| Original network | Discovery Kids (Latin America) Kids' CBC (Canada, season 1) CBeebies (UK) |
| Picture format | 480i |
| First shown in | Latin America |
| Original release | April 5, 2005 – April 8, 2011 |
Pinky Dinky Doo is an American animated children's television series created by Jim Jinkins. It was produced and co-owned by Jinkins' Cartoon Pizza and Sesame Workshop. The series was made in association with Discovery Kids Latin America and CBC Canada (Season 1). For the second season, Abrams Gentile Entertainment and the Canadian studio Keyframe Digital Productions joined as production companies. Each episode follows an imaginative pink-haired girl named Pinky Dinky Doo as she makes up her own stories.
The character of Pinky Dinky Doo was created by Jim Jinkins as a bedtime story for his daughter. In 2002, he developed the idea into a two-part web series, produced by his company Cartoon Pizza alongside Sesame Workshop. In 2003, Random House released a series of six children's books featuring the character, and on April 5, 2005, the show's first season made its worldwide premiere on Discovery Kids in Latin America. The show was first broadcast in English on CBC Canada in December 2005.
Between January 17, 2016 and January 2, 2021, the series aired in reruns on HBO Kids as part of HBO's deal with Sesame Workshop. It was also added to the HBO Max streaming service upon its launch on May 27, 2020, before being taken off in January 2021.
Plot
Pinky Dinky Doo is a girl who lives in Great Big City with her parents, her little brother Tyler, and their house pet Mr. Guinea Pig. When Tyler has a problem, Pinky says, "That gives me an idea." Tyler asks, "Pinky, are you going to make up a story?" and Pinky responds, "Yeserooni positooni!", dancing to a cardboard box called the Story Box. Using chalk and her imagination, she tells a story. In the second season, Pinky uses the Story Pad, a notebook in which she draws pictures for her newer stories, whenever the Story Box is not available.
During the made-up story, Pinky must "Think Big," at which point her head swells and she comes up with an often wacky solution to the problem while singing "If I have a problem, don't know which way to go, I think and think and think and think, and suddenly I know." Some episodes feature different variations of the "Think Big" sequence:
- In Big Blob of Talk, Pinky listens big instead.
- In Back to School Is Cool, Pinky's hair swells instead of her entire head due to her having a bad hair day.
- In Tyler to the Rescue, Two Wheel Dreams, Go to Bed Tyler!, and Tyler's Big Idea, Tyler thinks big.
- In Shrinky Pinky, Mr. Guinea Pig thinks big.
Cast and characters
Dinky Doo family
- Pinky Dinky Doo (voiced by India Ennenga)
- Tyler Dinky Doo (voiced by Felix Chrome in season 1; Allison Wachtfogel in season 2)
- Mr. Guinea Pig (voiced by Juan Van Michaelangelo in season 1; John Rogers in season 2)
- Mommy Dinky Doo (voiced by Heather Dilly in season 1; Lindsie Van Winkle in season 2)
- Daddy Dinky Doo (voiced by Jim Jinkins)
School characters
- Nicholas Biscuit (voiced by Justin Riordan in season 1; Katherine Rose Riley in season 2)
- Bobby Boom (voiced by Kalif Jenkins in season 1; Ralph Peavy in season 2)
- Daffinee Toilette (voiced by Carolina Hernandez in season 1; Anabelle Berrido in season 2)
Episodes
List of Pinky Dinky Doo episodes
Description
The show was intended to help preschool-aged viewers increase their vocabularies with its Great Big Fancy Word, which is featured several times during the episode. It also addresses problem-solving skills as well as the basics of narrative stories—character, dialogue, plot, details, main idea and sequence of events. After Pinky tells her story and solves the problem of the day, kids are invited to play an interactive game on the Cheese Sandwich toy, where they review details about the story. At the end of each episode, Pinky says, "I love to make up stories. I'll bet you can make up a story too." In each episode, there is also a "Great Big Fancy Word", but when somebody is about to say the word, Mr. Guinea Pig will blow a trumpet (sometimes a different brass/woodwind instrument) and then the character says the word (even if Mr. Guinea Pig himself says the word).
This series was created by Jim Jinkins, who originally made up Pinky's adventures as bedtime tales for his children. The executive producers are Jinkins and David Campbell. It is a production of Sesame Workshop, Cartoon Pizza, Keyframe Digital, and Abrams Gentile Entertainment. According to the show's website, it is intended to promote reading and imaginative storytelling.
See also
In Spanish: Pinky Dinky Doo para niños
